UTH oxygen machines out of service
The University Teaching Hospital (UTH) has run out of oxygen risking the lives of patients requiring the service.
UTH managing director Dr Lackson Kasonka has confirmed saying the oxygen plant has broken down but that they were using oxygen tanks to attend to emergencies.
Dr Kasonka however said they have already bought a new machine from South Africa in order to sustain oxygen supply at the institution and that it will arrive this week.
UTH urologist Dr Francis Manda has also confirmed saying the oxygen area at the institution has since been closed.
Dr Manda said some activities in the theatre laboratory have been stopped while the intensive care unit is partially operational.
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That oxygen hardly makes any difference to survival in UTH. That place is a death camp.
Malinso - January 22, 2013
23:15
iwe chipuba leave our president alone sata mwaume give him time and you see wonders viva
mukuka nkoloso - January 22, 2013
15:22
mwaume kaili he fucks you. Foolish Idiot. People are dying at UTH and you are you saying SATA mwaume. Stupid Idiot.
savimbi - January 22, 2013
17:37
Please dont blame him for supporting whoever, he is part of the family economic and political cult. However, he better keep quite or attract the wrath of the gods.. more powerful than a makeshift sangoma from Tanganyika
Sipinya Sa Hae Mbumbe - January 23, 2013
14:29
ukwa and pf have totally failed us..let them resign!!
CNP-4U - January 22, 2013
13:41
iwe chi colour what has this got to do with pf.ok twala funya oxygen kuli itole yakwa HH. UTH has management and technicians who get paid to do their job. they should have done their logistics and prepared for such a situation.
BLACK BELT - January 22, 2013
13:05
C-L-O-W-N-S!!!
Globe Trekker - January 22, 2013
12:03
YOU LIKE JOKES YOU PEOPLE NOW YOU JOKE WITH A SERIOUS MATTER OXYGEN SURELY SOME ARE NOT DOING THEIR JOB, EVEN THE UTH STAFF WERE SLEEPING TOO,SO THIS MEANS PEOPLE HAVE TO DIE BEFORE THE OTHER COMPONENT COMES FROM SOUTH AFRICA I DONT KNOW FOR HOW LONG OUR PLANING WILL EVER BE DOWN LIKE THIS.49 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE FAILING TO PLAN EFFECTIVELY
WAZABANGA - January 22, 2013
12:01
PF Failures
Me - January 22, 2013
11:36
Sata you have failed completely.am justing waitin for TB joshuas prophecy.mwanawasa is the greatest president zambia will ever have.kk the most useless.
2720 - January 22, 2013
11:05
But what was MMD doing kanshi???
Ichi Nyamu Nyamu - January 22, 2013
10:25
but this has broken down in PF government and not MMD. The question should be how was RB managing UTH for the plant not to have broken down in MMD?
i hate fornicators.... - January 22, 2013
11:13
The nuts are still here making noise? Can we enjoy ruling celebration you sore losers!!! If you want to win an election, what you need to do is find a candidate that can add numbers and read the polls right. None of you candidates could read the polls. Till the end, you guys still didn’t have a clue! Why am I even wasting my time with a bunch of idiot faggots. You are not going to win the next election anyway. You can start crying now cause 2016 will be Sata again & again!!!! After that, we ll have the president from the East. Just mark my words. You guys are done!!! We don’t care about your party! You guys are too d…. gush!!!! The country has changed!!! I know these dayz are your worse nightmare but you need to get over it. Trashing the PF is not going to give you any vote. Didn’t you learn your lesson from 2011??? The more you act crazy, the less chance you have to come back to power. You need to have something more constructive.
Maka - January 22, 2013
10:11
you are not zambia big bro.
i hate fornicators.... - January 22, 2013
11:01
NO NO NO…IT WONT BE sATA COME 2016… wE AR PRAYING FOR SOMEONE ELSE, A GOD SENT SON OF AFRICA…!! AND I MEAN NO TRIBAL LINES HERE…JUST GOD SENT!!
Globe Trekker - January 22, 2013
12:01
Lekeni sata ateke bwebantu.unfortunately for all of you who have hope that he will bring development you are wrong him only cares about building his house and jobs for his family and henchmen.meanwhile he is enjoying himself and has disappeared from publiC life yet UTH is just hundred metres from state house.man of action has done a donchi kubeba james bond on you zambians he won’t develop anything it was a hoaX
kalaba - January 22, 2013
09:51
‘Yesterday’UTH had no water,’Today’UTH has no gas. What next will the UTH lack?
Sikufele - January 22, 2013
09:48
Lets face it Dr Lackson Kasonka has failed to run that big medical institution. Recently he supported the mix up of bodies claiming that UTH was not responsible for the loss of a body which was wrongly buried and yet the mortuary which mixed up the bodies belongs to the institution. Now we are faced with this time bomb, the Oxygen mess. Lackson for heaven’s sake QUIT, QUIT QUIT if the shoes are too big for you. You have proved to be incompetent.
Ex Medical CEO - January 22, 2013
09:12
No I don’t agree that Lackson should be blamed. The buck stops squarely at State House because I remember vividly well that Sata promised to revamp the operations of UTH within 90 days from 23rd September 2011. In a democracy, politicians should honour their campaign promises to the word.
Centre Back of Democracy - January 22, 2013
10:12
The problem at UTH has been ongoing for several years. Dr Lackson Kasonka knew about these problems in the three years he has been Managing director and did nothing. How could he have allowed the situation to get this desperate? This is unacceptable. He should be sacked with immediate effect!!!! People have been dying unecessarily because of the incompetence of Dr kasonka. Let someone who is serious and has a heart to revamp that once upon a time glorious hospital take over immediately. Enough is enough!!!!!!!
chuulu - January 23, 2013
22:33
Chilifye as long as the Bembas are ruling. Lekeni man of action Sata ateke. For Ukwa, everything is ok as he can go to SA for treatment under the guise of supporting or more accurately bringing mashamo to his donchi kubeba boys like Chris Katongo. I am sure the $90,000 x 22 would solve this problem.
Lyelela Lyambai - January 22, 2013
09:01
Its fecial 2 say the pf shudnt be blamd for these iregularities.They r busy cuasing bye elections n fundng major Kachingwe 2 cause dvision in mmd with the old mony wich is fowarded 2 bank of Zambia since it stil 5 months 2 run..
BRIAN HAPUNDA - January 22, 2013
08:52
Its fecial 2 say the pf shudnt be blamd for these iregularities.They r busy cuasing bye elections n fundng major Kachingwe 2 cause dvision in mmd with the old mony wich is fowarded 2 bank of Zambia since it stil 5 months 2 run
BRIAN HAPUNDA - January 22, 2013
08:49
The old regime was heavily blamed for such occurrences including cholera. But have all those disappeared now.It is easier to blame than to govern correctly.Wishes can never be deeds.
Advocate - January 22, 2013
08:28
Only an idiot would blame pf
cheelo - January 22, 2013
08:06
You are the idiot. Have you already forgotten Sata condeming the previous regime for sending patients to SouthAfrica for treatment instead of improving our services and facilities here.
Genuine Democracy - January 22, 2013
08:12
Its you indeed who is an idiot, low level of education is affecting your thinking like your menter Ukwa the senoir Kaponya!
Fringstone - January 22, 2013
08:30
It’s not IDIOTS who stood on various podiums and promised to improve the health delivery system in our country. It was this current Govt that made the promises. So, @ Cheelo, you are really being unfair to right thinking Zambians who do not have shallow memories like you. Unless you have not had a patient at UTH, I can excuse you for your total lack of thought.
Centre Back of Democracy - January 22, 2013
09:21
only a dull fool would not put the blame squarely on PF
Zed@crossroad - January 22, 2013
09:41
Your master goes to India and South Africa for any simple illness while our relatives die in local hospitals that are neglected! Nonsense!
Mubanga - January 22, 2013
09:56
why are you removing my comments shame on you watch mubwa
Nkeyema - January 22, 2013
07:52
I post a comment and it doesn’t show. I post a second time, the system says a duplicate comment has been detected. So, where is my comment then.
Bob - January 22, 2013
07:51
This was a follow up posting to the comment that disappeared.
Bob - January 22, 2013
11:57
Maamboo you Cynthia , it’s a processed oxygen not the same used for welding
Manawasa - January 22, 2013
07:49
This is PF for you. From day 1, i stated on this forum that Sata had the greatest opportunity to improve UTH specialist clinics because he consistently preached against the sending of patients at great cost to other countries to access specialised treatment. Alas, the president has changed like a chameleon! He is more interested in poaching opposition MPs to his side regardless of the high cost of bye elections. In short, his focus has shifted from the Zambian people to his selfish populist ego. At the rate we are going, Sata will not leave behind any legacy, because whatever little will be achieved in his time as president, would still have been achieved anyway regardless of who the president was.
Bob - January 22, 2013
07:48
Every president leaves a legacy. ‘No legacy’ is legacy itself. HEMCS did not come to the office to work but to satiate his alta ego that he is also a presido….
The Seer - January 22, 2013
09:08
If they don’t pay their dues how do they expect to run anything in the country
Manawasa - January 22, 2013
07:47
the sooner they replacement is made the better looking at the role UTH plays in the country.There is cause for alarm.
Amuchi - January 22, 2013
07:41
Thats a sad situation.
hope - January 22, 2013
07:39
THEY SELL OXGENY ,I BUY IT MY SELF FOR GASWELDING.
maambo - January 22, 2013
07:47
Yes you can sell excess oxygen to generate some money for small items to run the machines.Nothing wrong here, if demand is high and you sell then we have an issue.
Gabbage - January 22, 2013
08:51