Permanent secretary for administration in the ministry of health George Magwende has stressed the ministry’s determination to ensure provision of equitable access to cost effective, quality healthcare services as close to the family as possible. Dr. Magwende says the new dawn government has placed premium on health promotion and prevention as opposed to curative care, where the public has early ...

The Zambia police service has unearthed a crime syndicate in which two Chinese nationals allegedly hired two South African nationals and a Ugandan to murder their fellow Chinese national in Chingola. This is in relation to an attempted murder case which occurred on March 2, 2022 at around 08:30 hours at Lian-an mining limited Chingola in which Chinese national identified ...

The country has recorded an additional four cases of cholera bringing the cumulative confirmed cases to 7. Of the confirmed four cases that were recorded on Sunday, three are from Lusaka while one is from Nsumbu in Nsama district of northern province. Addressing the nation on various health issues, health minister Sylvia Masebo disclosed that there are four probable cases ...

The ministry of health (MOH) has changed the entire top management at Matero level one general hospital following revelations of unhealthy conditions and lack of drugs at the heath institution. During the Easter holiday , Matero member of parliament Miles Sampa conducted an impromptu visit to Matero level one hospital where he found toilets were full of filth while patients ...

The Ndola city council has so far received slightly over   25, 700,000 kwacha, constituency development fund-CDF from government for the four constituencies. The four constituencies are Ndola central, Bwana Mkubwa, Kabushi and Chifubu. The council initially received 2, 540, 000 kwacha for the first phase of bursaries with each constituency receiving 635,000 kwacha on February 8, 2022. Meanwhile the council ...

Anti voter apathy executive director Richwel Mulwani has attributed the reported high voter apathy in the just ended Mongu mayoral by-election to people not attaching great importance to the by-election. Mr. Mulwani has told q news in a telephone interview that a lot of people still feel that they voted already in last year’s general election and the main task ...

Action for nature has observed the need for Zambia to develop an effective emergency strategy to respond to the prevailing effects of climate change that speak to the reality on the ground. Organization chief executive officer Chilekwa Kangwa Zambia is likely to suffer even more consequences of climate change if the government does not change the strategy of looking at ...

Opposition Patriots for Economic Progress leader, Sean Tembo has described as an economic blunder, the decision by the UPND administration to employ more than 40,000 civil servants, at a time when the country has the largest fiscal deficit in history. Mr. Tembo has explained that a fiscal deficit means that the country’s expenditure is higher than its revenue.   He also ...

Opposition patriotic front Shiwan’Gandu member of parliament Stephen Kampyongo has charged that the recent impromptu visit by minister of health Sylvia Masebo to Lusaka’s Chipata level one hospital where she took a swipe at some health personnel who were allegedly found pressing their mobile phones, is a clear intimidation to the health workers. The former home affairs minister has advised ...

The National Restoration Party, member of the UPND alliance Charles Maboshe led faction, is confident that president Hakainde Hichilema will address all the economic challenges facing the country. Mr. Maboshe says President Hichilema has already demonstrated that he is a good leader by fulfilling some of his campaign promises like the free education policy. He says many children are now ...