Africa Healthcare Institute of Chingola has disputed allegations by the Health Deputy Minister Dr. Chitalu Chilufya who was quoted in the times of Zambia of august 26, 2014, saying the school is illegal and started operating without government authorization under the auspices of the Zambia Civil Society Health Partnership. Speaking to Sun FM News, school Executive Director, Christine Kampapa, said the school is a fully registered institution which operates within the legal framework of the Zambian laws, adding that it is a registered Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) and has signed a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with the Ministry of Health, and international cooperating partners. She said the school feels the best way, Dr. Chilufya could have handled the matter was to tell the school where it may have not been meeting the required standards adding that that was why it had invited him to tour the school’s facility and propose what he could have thought were areas that require improvement. She noted that the school’s major aim is to supplement government’s effort in improving health-care delivery to the Zambian people; especially that infant mortality rate is high in Chingola. This follows a statement where government ordered the closure of the African Health Care Institution on grounds that it does not have government authorization to train community health care workers and advised that the community not to enroll at the named school.
Posted on: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 10:30:56 +0000
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