GOVERNMENT must take punitive action against private health institutions that are frustrating its drive to fight the Covid-19 pandemic.It is clear from Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya’s statement yesterday that private hospitals are not helping the government in tack-ling the Covid-19 pandemic.According to Dr Chilufya, some private health facilities have been found keeping in admission suspected Covid-19 patients when they should be in government designated health centres.The implication as explained by the minister is that patients are referred to government health facilities when their condition worsens, hence his warning that private hospitals found keeping in admission suspected Covid-19 patients would be held responsible for the late referral.Although the Minister did not give any figures, it is likely that some patients have died after initially being admitted in these private hospitals.It is also possible that even those who have died in government hospitals could have been saved had they been transferred earlier.Dr Chilufya’s statement simply implies that […]
COVID-19 TREATMENT
