Tue, 30 May 2017 10:36:50 +0000 By Simon Mwanza STORIES of health personnel ill-treating patients are overflowing in Zambia and there is absolutely nothing to suggest that the picture will change any time soon. It has become crystal clear that no matter how good the training or the trainee, returning such individuals to a system that is hostile to practitioners’ desire to act ethically and professionally still remains a big defy. Some schools of thought have admitted that the health professional actually faces two totally conflicting orders. To have the characteristics of doctor, nurse, etc, he or she must be both inhuman and human; a device made of steel that has no empathy, and a person made of flesh that feels and emotes. But the story of a mother who died at Lusaka’s Chilenje level one Hospital last Friday due to sheer negligence of medical personnel did not come much as a tremor because […]
