USAID to construct prefabricated health post in Kanyama
By Staff Reporter
THE United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has pledged to construct a prefabricated health post at a cost of US$60,000 in Kanyama constituency’s ward 11 located in John Laing township.
According to a press statement issued by Ministry of Gender media liaison officer, Mwape Mwenya on Wednesday, USAID discover regional director Dr Simulyamana Choonga disclosed that construction works of the health post would commence in the next two months and that they were expected to be completed before the end of this year.
Mwenya stated that Dr Choonga believed that the health post would be providing, among other services, the Out Patient Department (OPD), Voluntary Testing and Counselling for HIV/AIDS as well as providing antenatal services.
And Kanyama member of parliament Elizabeth Phiri has praised USAID for its resolve to supplement government’s efforts of “providing quality health care to its citizens.”
Phiri, who is gender minister also, noted that the PF government had been providing an enabling environment for its cooperating partners to invest in various sectors that promoted development.
“She (Ms Phiri) said people in Kanyama have for a long time been depending on Kanyama level one hospital which is congested due to the vast catchment areas.”
Phiri said she would continue engaging cooperating partners to ensure that more clinics and hospitals were constructed in Kanyama in order to reduce distances people walk to get to health facilities.
