Western Province Permanent Secretary, Emmanuel Mwamba, says government has recognized Western Province as the poorest in the country and was taking comprehensive development to the area. Mr. Mwamba says government was taking a comprehensive approach to build infrastructure that was far apart such as health centres, schools, roads that were non-existent, inadequate water supply and electricity power supply in Kalabo district and Western Province as a whole. Mr. Mwamba explained that government was doing everything possible in the province in order to bring development to the people and reduce the high poverty levels in the area. He stressed that by taking infrastructural development closer to the people, communities that were isolated would have health centres, schools and roads among others in the area. The Permanent Secretary also added that due to high incidences of malaria in western province, government has procured 800,000 mosquito nets to help combat the killer disease and appealed to the people to put to good use and not abuse the nets for fishing. He further explained that government has also taken action on diseases that had no attention such as cervical cancer by introducing screening to detect early infection that could easily be treated before it was too late to avoid loss of lives.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Jun 2013 13:19:38 +0000
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