The MEC for health, Sasekani Manzini, met various role players of the health department at KaMhlushwa Community Hall on Tuesday July 12 for a consultation meeting to deliberate on critical issues that portray it in a bad light for various reasons.
Operational managers, primary healthcare managers, district managers, supervisors, subdistrict managers, hospital CEOs and provincial managers participated in this event.

Manzini encouraged all managers to employ good practices in implementing operational systems in place to prioritise and improve healthcare services rendered to the patients.
According to her, they must change the current status of things so that the society has a positive perspective of health workers who are passionate to assist and to provide care for the people.
“I personally plead with everyone to strengthen their monitoring strategy by just frequently conducting oversights that are fundamental to change the status quo and to further improve services.

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“As a department, we must continue to support clinics and community health centres for the crucial roles they play in this sector to positively impact as the backbone of public health service.”

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Manzini also acknowledged facilities that are performing well. “I appreciate the resilience displayed by our health workers in the fight against Covid-19. I urge you all to continue to be dedicated to your work as champions of service delivery, as stated on the mission and vision objectives of the department, which is to to improve the quality of health and well-being of all.”