Zambia Needs More Doctors, Not More Politicians in Parliament
The UPND government, under the leadership of President Hakainde Hichilema and through Health Minister Elijah Muchima, has shamelessly abandoned the very backbone of our health system our doctors
These are not foreign consultants demanding millions in fees. These are our own sons and daughters, trained at great national cost, now left to rot in unemployment while volunteering yes, volunteering just to keep clinics and hospitals from shutting down.
What kind of leadership watches hospitals collapse while trained medical professionals beg to be employed?
While doctors go hungry and patients die from preventable diseases due to staff shortages, this government has the audacity to push for constitutional amendments and the creation of more constituencies moves clearly driven by political greed, not national interest.
Let the UPND explain to the people of Zambia:
Where will the money come from to pay for more MPs, when they can’t even hire doctors?
You cannot call yourself a New Dawn government when your priorities mirror the very decay Zambians voted to end.
Instead of fixing health care, they are fixing political boundaries.
Instead of delivering essential medicines, they are delivering more political seats.
Instead of employing doctors, they are employing deceit.
It is immoral, short-sighted, and downright irresponsible to expand government when basic services are collapsing.
More MPs won’t save a mother dying in childbirth.
More constituencies won’t treat malaria.
Constitutional amendments won’t bring oxygen to an ICU.
Let it be known:
Zambia does not need more politicians it needs more doctors.
Zambia does not need a bloated Parliament it needs leadership that puts lives first before politics.
I call on every Zambian to stand with our unemployed doctors. Stand with the patients sent home untreated. Stand with the people being failed daily by this brutal regime under President Hakainde Hichilema a regime that has even failed to manage donated medicines.
If they cannot manage free medicine, what else can they manage?
The maladministration of President Hakainde is no longer a political accusation it is a lived reality.
The suffering is real. The betrayal is visible.
Abraham Simpamba
Together We Can
Ichalo Bantu!
We have also thousands of teachers who are volunteers. We have thousands of community police officers who are volunteers. We also have thousands of nurses who are volunteers. We have thousands of community game guards who volunteers. We have thousands of community health providers, psycho social counselors, who are volunteers. These people are patriotic and mainly non partisan. Even in USA volunteers are there. The problem we have in Zambia is that we we crooked cartel that only wants to disturb everything that is viewed as an hindrance to their personal benefits. Please let volunteers continue existing in the hospitals and help us avail more drug thievery. Ba HH continue budgeting for the recruitment of more doctors, teachers, security offices, nurses etc systematically as already shown. But remember to Give stiffer punishments to convicted drug thieves, for they are actually silent murderers
The government has tried to increase numbers in almost every sector to reduce ratios due population growth. People should realize that since I991, the number of constituencies has remained the unchanged. From 1964, with a population of about 3million, we had 80 seats in parliament including the nominated. In 1967, with a population of about 4 milliom, seats were increased to 110. In 1991, with the the population of about 9million, the seats were increased to 164, including for nominations. Today the population is over 21 million! Some constituencies have become abnormally big,in terms of populations, and vastness. And work By single mps has become very difficult. At the same time CDF distribution has shown imbalances. Small and large ones receiving the same amounts. And we can’t wait for 2031, because by that time, the population will be over 34 million. In this regard, we need more public workers, including mps, for improved efficiency. Not increments in every sector are dictated by population growth. More people more problems, and more workers needed. And more constituencies are created, it doesn’t mean that all the new seats shall be for HH. After all HH is to leave very soon in 2031, according to the current constitution.