Head of obstetrics and gynecology at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH) professor Frank Taulo has urged Malawians to start paying in public hospitals as one way of improving the health sector.
The development follows poor health service delivery in the public hospitals due to financial hiccups that have hit Malawi government.
Speaking to the local press, Taulo said government cannot manage to meet the demands of the health sector of the country due to high population growth in Malawi.
“There are a lot of things that hospitals need and I don’t think government can manage to have them all, the best thing we can go by is paying little something for our health services.”
“This can bring to our health sector, even in some countries like South Africa, America, they pay little something though these nations are very rich, so who are we in Malawi,” said Taulo.
He added that paying in public hospitals can help in controlling foreigners from neighbouring countries who seek medication in Malawi for free.
“For instance at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital we do have patients from Mozambique who come to access our treatment for free,” added Taulo.
Malawi government through the ministry of health disclosed that it will introduce fees in public hospitals arguing that the cost of treatment has gone up.
However, the issue of user fees remain contentious with Billy Mayaya who is a member of Civic and Political Space Platform saying that the move will hurt more Malawians.
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inu nomwe mumamugunda munthu osauka panseu ndikumuthawa alibeso ndalama,nde mukat tidzilipila mukufuna kupha osauka?muchepetse malipilo anuo ndalamazo zizipita kumeneko.
apa ndepofunika kusamala chilengedwe panja.cz I cnt go to th hospital wt stomach pain en pay 1000 aaa never zachikuda zingwile Ntchito basi.pls guy dzalani aluvera mmanyumbamo
Tipange referandamu pankhani iyi next week
Ndiponso very poor service. Zongobera anthu
Shaaaaa Zuka Malawi Zuka. Lija ndikale unayamba kugona, Zuka malawi iwe zukaaaaaaaaa
Tizilipira basi iyaaa chaulere ndimoni yekha masiku ano,ganizi labwino kwabasi
How sum1 who don’t hv job pay 4 medication? If they can’t even afford to buy their dairy food how abouta paying in hospitals ??????? Y not opening our ayes that there z no medicine in gvt hsp 4 poor pple? Its sounds nonsense that u cashgating poorers money & asking them that to pay in public hsp. Sale the gvt to whites if u can’t run our nation.
Do u think all Malawians are rich? Think twice b4 acting things enafe timavutika kupeza ndrama mu ma location just waiting money for season after fodya ukagulitsidwa. So u think that way coz mumalandira ma thousands osawerengeka per months koma hav u ever kuganizirapo za amphawi? Shame….. have mercy to ppo!!!!!!
fuck u and fuck ur government think about people in the village area
u shuld b ashamed of urself u want to kill innocent ppl. I can agree now that u r a killer
A gud plan, indeed you are a great thinker. If pipo are paying at secondary school where civil servants are working why not to the hospital? We were paying at primary school during kamuzu’s regime where is the problem now? Pipo are paying at private hospital why not with public hospitals? Lets say about prices. This is a gud plan of improving health sector only that malawi is full of politics.
leadership of malawi is full of blood , asiye kudula misonkho komabe ngakhale adule misonkho i cant pay is beter to go for prvt hosptal , unless they hv reduced the salary of your president & his cabnet
Tsono ma tax mukumatidula pa katundu wina aliyenseyu ndalama zake zizipita kuti? uku ndiye kuba kwenikweni, chabwino chotsani mataxe akatundu wina aliyense kut tizilipira ku chipatala ndi ma xool than muzingotibera chilichonse in th name of taxe, apa zaoneseratu kuti zatikanika zoyendesa dzikoli.
Zachamba poti inu mulipakhate
I Wil Buy Dat,coz It Wil Be De Best Way,if We Want Improvement In Healthy Sector.
mukamamva kt tinkanena anathera mu siiizi nkhani zake zimakhala ngt zimenezi kusamvá a mec hmmmmmm apa atipweteketsa see????
Paja mphunzitsi last govt year anapatsidwa increment ya K100,00.Pano ndizi mukuti K4,000.00.mukachotsa yanu one point something.Kodi mwana wa mpunzitsi ndiye kuti alibe ufulu wophunzira?DZUKA MALAWI,PAJA ADATI TIZASIYA KULANDIRA MA CHANGE KOMANSO PADZAKHALA CHALK ALLOWANCE+MASM.
You have the money and you are free to go to any hospital. The Government hospitals are 4 the poor, so don’t confuse us
kama ndiye ziliko! kusonyeza kuti anthu opanda ndalama azingofa ngati mbewa kapena makoswe? tionana 2019.
The only solution to improve the situation in public hospitals is to vote wisely in 2019