Workers in public hospitals stage peaceful demo, asks parliament to intervene
Government has come under intense pressure to resuscitate the collapsing public health service by improving the welfare of both health workers and patients.
This was a message sent on Friday by public hospital workers in Lilongwe, Dowa and Nkhata Bay.
The health workers that included doctors and nurses, marched peacefully from Kamuzu Central Hospital to Parliament building at city centre, Lilongwe where they presented a petition containing numerous grievances to chairlady of parliament’s health committee, Juliana Lunguzi.
Among other issues, the hospital workers cited the appalling working conditions such as lack of medicine, health workers, medical drugs and food for patients.
Lunguzi, a registered nurse herself assured the health workers, who were in their uniforms that parliament would debate the critical issues raised in the petition.
She said as a health worker herself, she understands the critical condition in which the health workers are and parliament would do all it can to reverse the situation.
Similar peaceful demonstrations also happened in Dowa and Nkhata Bay where health workers presented their petitions to officials at their respective district commissioner offices.
In Chikhwawa on Thursday, Press Corporation officials were surprised to learn that a hospital kitchen, which they had sponsored to build, will not be used as government has no money to buy food and prepare it for the patients at the hospital.
Christopher Guta, who handed over the rehabilitated kitchen building, was told food preparation at the hospital was suspended due to cash flow problems and patients are being told to seek food from their relations.
District Commissioner Bester Mandele said apart from food shortages, there is acute shortage of drugs at the hospital as malaria cases continue to rise up, saying statistics at the hospital shows 45 percent of patients at the hospital suffer from malaria.
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Peter Mutharika, do you have any solution to our problems? Do you feel for Malawians? If you dont have solutions please resign, we are sure that once DPP government gets out of power things will improve, just like they did in 2012. APM and the DPP are the stumbling block to Malawis prosperity. They dont want to do the needful fkr the donors to unlock their aid. Donors want justice for Chasowa, justice for the July 20 massacre and the report on the 577 billion MK. DPP government doee not want to do the above just for political survival. My… Read more »
Chalaka Bakha Nkhuku singatole. If the country z goin thru such troubled waters under APM the Professor, akanakhala Chakwera bwenzi pano zinthu zitavuta zedi.
The good thing z dat it z lomwez, senas who r feeling the pinch most! Achewa, agoni, atumbuka those who did not vote for this nyansi of president r better off
they cant do anything they ve to explain where 577 went
uyuzamukanika akadzabela adzaphetsa anthu osalakwa panopazithu zava kukamwa ngati kumatako uzipita kwanu .Bakili amatisamala bwino anthu;amalawi onse amamukonda osati iwe wodya njoka
A Doctor is called a doctor because of availability of medicine and likewise the nurses. The health workers are demonstrating for a good cause. Can money worthy MK50,000,000 be spent on repatriation of Malawians from SA and yet a patient is failing to get Panadol from the hospital ? Why not use this MK50 Million in purchasing drugs for our hospitals ? Lets use logic. Lets not turn our hospitals into DEATH FACILITIES due to luck of wisdom. We need to look and take care of our doctors and nurses as they in turn take care of the patients.
Demonstrations. They all start like this. Small groups here and there. Other disgruntled groups are just watching. Eventually all will be on the streets, chaos and shops getting looted, death etc. Simple advice to govt they say a stitch on time saves nine. Strategy concentrate on solving critical issues one by one. We dont want a repeat of 2011/12 saga.
Am in MALAWI right now. But 1thing u must know is that we r ruled by Satan Athar Peter Muthalika all ppo we r surfering bcoz of his evil work
GUYS Lets go ahead with that idea ( have our government in the north)with our own president enough is enough. 50+ years things if any thing are getting worse .Picture this my fellow Malawians, Nigerians, Chinese, Congolese , Burundis are flocking to my Malawi for business ventures why? what do they see that we Malawians can not see? I am not in Malawi at present but honestly speaking this government is a WASTE OF SPACE asowe pliz, at least by now we would have seen some improvement after being in power for a year plus but honestly speaking things are… Read more »