Pharmaceutical Expert and United Party for National Development (UPND) health committee member Jerome Kanyika has disclosed that once the new government gets inaugurated, it would be able to improve the pharmaceutical sector adding that the new government will ensure that Zambia has a health care system that ensures patients get the needed medication from hospitals.
Kanyika, who is a key member of the UPND health committee said the incoming government will ensure the country has a health care service that is well financed through the government budgetary means and schemes such as the National Health Insurance Management Authority (NHIMA) and leverage the pharmaceutical industry which is a multi-billion industry which Zambia has not benefited much from.
The former Pharmaceutical Society of Zambia (PSZ) President said the incoming government’s plans are to ensure they put in place a health sector that responds to every citizen’s needs whether poor or rich adding that there is need to have a health care system that ensures patients get the needed medication from hospitals.
He said the plan is to have all specialized health care providers available in order to serve the Zambian people diligently so that the country can become a destination for provision of health care services through proper infrastructure development and equipment.
Speaking in an interview with the Zambian Business Times – ZBT, Kanyika said the new government would ensure the health care service responds to issues such as pandemics and epidemics in good time. He explained that in its manifesto, the UPND talks about providing proper health services to the Zambian people, which require formulating policies that can bring out the set objective and incorporate the civil servants who executes those policies.
He noted that every political party has different committees, which help to check what the civil service is implementing in terms of policy adding that the committees exist in order to formulate the party’s policies that the civil service eventually executes. Kanyika expressed happiness over the new President-elect, Hakainde Hichilema who he described as hardworking and focused.
