700 health workers.

By CHUSA SICHONE  -
THE ministry of Finance has allowed the Treasury to supply funds for quite 700 positions within the Ministry of Health to expand the institution and make additional job opportunities within the health sector.
Health Minister Joseph Kasonde declared this once he printed the ministry’s achievements for the primary 1/2 2013 in national capital on weekday.
“I am glad to tell you that the ministry of Finance has granted Treasury authority for funding of 707 positions within the ministry of Health,” he said.
Dr Kasonde same the three-year National coaching Operation set up (NTOP 2013-2016) launched last month would more mitigate employees shortages in health facilities by scaling up the quantity of scholars graduating from all health coaching establishments within the country.
“The ministry’s set up is to enrol and train four, 000 nursing students once a year thus on alleviate shortages of nurses in health facilities throughout the country,” he said.
The Government is additionally attending to upgrade all nursing coaching colleges within the country to extend intakes of nurse trainees.
The minister more same his ministry, in conjunction with the general public Service Management Division, recruited 447 doctors UN agency had since been denote to totally different health facilities across the country.
He same sixty junior resident medical officers and seventy one pharmacy interns had been appointed which they started their post programme at totally different coaching sites.
On the modernization method of David Livingstone, Ndola, Kitwe and University Teaching hospitals victimisation the K205 million Eurobond allotted to the ministry of Health, Dr Kasonde same the exercise had already started.
Among the key beneficiary comes was the conceive to construct a brand new medical emergency unit at UTH wherever works were expected to start out in September, this year following completion of the planning.