DOCTORS IN SHOCK …over the low advertised positions for health workers

By TAWANDA MUNYUKIDOCTORS are shocked that Government is not going to employ all the 800 who are unemployed, that only 500 will be recruited and it is not known over what period.The Resident Doctors Association of Zambia was surprised to learn that only 500 positions for medical doctors have been advertised out of the over 800 submissions made to the Ministry of Health.Equally, different medical health associations were baffled over what they termed as low number of positions advertised in the recruitment of 11, 276 health workers.Pharmaceutical Association of Zambia president, Kennedy Saini said out of the 510 submissions which were made to the Ministry of Health for consideration, only 47 positions have been advertised.Mr Saini said this does not even meet half the demand for pharmacists in the country as there is a gap of over 50 percent.“What we expected was a substantial number of what we submitted but this is below five percent,” […]