Volunteers To Be Prioritised In Health Worker Recruitment Drive

The Ministry of Health has said that volunteers currently working in hospitals and medical centres will be given priority treatment as the government looks to recruit an additional 11,200 healthcare workers. 

MoH Permanent Secretary for Technical Services Prof. Luckson Kasonka said it would be illogical and unfair for the government to ignore the skills and experience of those already working in healthcare facilities on a volunteer basis.  

He said there were many qualified healthcare workers who had been engaged by the previous Patriotic Front government, but were no longer on the payroll due to a lack of funding. 

Health Minister Sylvia Masebo has similarly said that the government is aiming to fix the shortage of qualified healthcare workers by employing an additional 11,200 personnel.

“The employment of 11,200 would address the challenge of shortage of human resource and staff displacement, all this would be dealt with,” she told staff at the Arthur Davies Children’s Hospital in Ndola.