Thu, 12 Jan 2017 13:37:36 +0000 THE state of the University Teaching Hospital mortuary, where bodies are reported to be piled on the floor for lack of space in the refrigerators, calls for urgent attention by the authorities. We must all find a new way to die and our remains secured in the 21st Century. UTH is the country’s biggest referral hospital and, situated in the capital city, it should set an example of administrative and organisational competence, technical superiority and clinical excellence. It cannot allow itself to sink so low. Zambians’ view of UTH is one where medicine is practised at the highest level of proficiency using state of the art equipment. It is a place which is supposed to offer services of a 21st Century medical centre where the theatres, wards, consulting rooms and the mortuary present Zambia to the world as a gleaming example of a middle-class African State. It is […]
