HEALTH Minister Sylvia Masebo says the country needs an estimation of 60 thousand health workers for the country to effectively reduce its disease burden.Ms. Masebo says government is implementing several strategies to increase the number of health workers currently standing at 35000. Ms. Masebo said the successful attainment of Zambia’s goal of being a prosperous middle-income country by 2030 should begin with the transformation of its people into a healthy and productive population. The Minister said this during the 15th graduation ceremony of biomedical students at Ndola School of Biomedical Sciences.She said government would continue prioritising health service provision as a path to achieve its ambition of making Zambia a prosperous middle income nation by 2030.In a speech read on her behalf by Copperbelt Province Permanent Secretary, Augustine Kasongo, Ms Masebo said increase in the number of health personnel would take the country closer to optimal numbers of health workers required to ensure equity of access to […]
Zambia in 60,000 health workers deficit – Masebo
