Implementation of Select Health Projects at Livingstone Central Hospital
Abstract
Over the years, the Jesuit Centre for Theological Reflection (JCTR) has monitored the use of public financial resources in an effort to foster accountability by public officers. Some works have included analysing issues raised in the Auditor General reports over the year and advocating action on culprits. Hence, undertaking of the social audit by the JCTR Livingstone outreach team to measure among areas, progress on projects and the quality of works. Monitoring of the projects was implemented over a period of 12 months, November 2017 through to November 2018.
Description
Enjoyment of the right to health is still a concern in Zambia and falls below that required for the people to fully enjoy that right and other related rights such as the right to right. Therefore, the projects of building the laboratory, the eye clinic, the dental clinic and the wall fence at Livingstone Central hospital aimed at enhancing access to health in Livingstone by the local people interested the Livingstone JCTR Outreach team. The said structures were meant to be modern facilities that would house all necessary equipment and would provide a wider range of services to three quarters of the population of southern province. This would drastically reduce referrals of patients to the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Lusaka.