Wed, 18 Oct 2017 10:08:35 +0000 BY LINDA SOKO TEMBO GOVERNMENT’s plan to provide quality health care closer to the people and achieve vision 2020, on Monday moved a step further when it unveiled three eye clinics in Lusaka. The new clinics are in Chawama, Bauleni and Mandevu, and were built by Standard Chartered Bank at a cost of US$304, 000. Speaking when he officially launched the three eye clinics at Chawama Level One Hospital Ministry of Health (MoH) Permanent Secretary Jabbin Mulwanda said the clinics would go a long way in contributing to the attainment of government’s vision 2020 ‘the right to sight’. Dr. Mulwanda who represented Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya at the event, said 80 percent of visual disability was avoidable and yet most people walked with visual disability which impacted on their productivity in life. He explained that eye conditions were among the top five reasons why people came to the clinics. […]
