Lack of adequate funding has affected operations of health services in Mzimba district.
This was disclosed by Mzimba District Commissioner Thomas Chirwa when he was commenting on a report that was released by M’mbelwa District Council.
The report shows that 19 babies out of the nearly 44 who are born each day in the district die within 28 days due to poor health delivery and that two pregnant of women die monthly from labour complications.
Chirwa called on non-governmental organisations and legislators to urgently support the health sector which gets inadequate funding from government.
Speaking to the media on the sidelines of the meeting where the report was presented, Chirwa said that the crisis has affected the delivery of essential services by all public hospitals in Mzimba North and South.
“This is so because parliament transposed the budgetary allocation for the district with that of another smaller district in the country, a process which was difficult to reverse,” Chirwa said.
He gave an example of Mzimba North District Health Office which was allocated K1.6m while Mzimba South was only allocated K3.6m despite the district having more than 50 health centres.
Chirwa has called on non-governmental organizations and legislators in the district to assist the health sector in cash and kind, saying as of now all ambulances have been grounded hence no referral services are being conducted though they have more patients who need to get treatment at Mzuzu Central Hospital.
The study was conducted by a district team and facilitated by the Mama-Ye project which aims at bringing transparency and accountability in health financing.
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Poor mzimba boma yooh.
Poor mzimba boma yooh.
Ok
Mmmmh Iz it true? Am not b leave it hw come half babie born?
give us statistics we are not brutes
why not referendum
The solution for the problem is M’mberwa to reverse their stupidity decision to refuse to divide Mzimba for the betterment of people. In actual sense these glutinous pipo they know for sure that that is the only way to go. but dyera ndi kutchuka for kingship mbuzi za wanthu.
Speak chichewa to them first.
Losing 50% of babies born within a month is completely inexcusable. Even in the villages with the traditional birth attendants which were banned, the mortality rate couldn’t go that high.
What is the use of hospitals then? Authorities must examine each baby death to ascertain the causes. Otherwise negligence of health workers can be a major contribution.
Musawayiwale Achitumbuka amaphana chifukws chakutha ndiwo mmbale
I hope u are 1 doing such thing,silly dog.
Shortage of Drugs n’Ambulances have become 2problematic in our Society,this bcz the Old n’Expired minitser of Finance HON #GONDWE r’busy Enriching themselves while poor people remain the Same!CORRUPTION and CASHGATE these r’major thing that cause Highier death Rate in our country.
Northern region is always behind i dont know why.
Stupid lies
This is bad news.
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