ACTING MINISTER OF HEALTH MWEETWA GETS BRIEFINGS FROM ALL DEPARTMENTS
Acting Minister of Health, Hon. Cornelius Mweetwa, convened a meeting with Heads of Departments and Units at the Ministry of Health to receive comprehensive departmental briefs and presentations.
The engagement provided an important platform for the Acting Minister to gain detailed insight into the Ministry’s ongoing programmes, strategic priorities, operational challenges, and key performance milestones. Each department delivered structured presentations outlining progress made, resource needs, policy considerations, and areas requiring strengthened coordination.
The meeting underscored the Ministry’s commitment to transparency, accountability, and results-driven leadership, while ensuring alignment with national health priorities. It also allowed the Acting Minister to provide guidance, set expectations, and reinforce the importance of teamwork in delivering quality healthcare services to the people.
Such engagements remain critical in strengthening institutional efficiency and ensuring that the Ministry continues to respond effectively to emerging public health demands.
Georgia Mutale Chimombo
Principal Public Relations Officer/ Spokesperson
Entrenched resistance to change is what causing poor performance at this heavily funded Ministry.There are so many centres of power and influence that have refused for health services to be devolved to local authoroties
These vested interests can only be broken by cocerted effort to break the ministry in gadual but at a determined pace.First,all health centers providing primary health care must effectively be placed under local authoritie,inluding some essentoal medicines,pharaceuticals procurement functionsand most importantly,all personnel including medical doctors must be recruited and emplyed by the Local Government Service Commission where all personal emolument heads must transfered in the national budget
Do this and most managers currently bloating the system in Lusaka and provincial HQs will forced to come dowm to work for district councils