Malawi set to fill vacancies in health sector
Malawi Government has pledged to train more health workers to improve health service delivery in the country.
Deputy Minister of Health Chikumbutso Hiwa made the pledge in Lilongwe recently when he presided over the graduation of the HIV/Aids Leadership Fellowship Programme at the University of Malawi’s (Unima) College of Medicine’s Lilongwe campus.
Hiwa said health services delivery is one of the priority themes of the draft National Health Policy and the 2011-2016 Health Sector Strategic Plan.
“It is important not to only train more health personnel but also retain them if health services offered to all Malawians are to improve.
“We need to recognise that Malawi will significantly improve its welfare and implement development policies if the healthcare services are well developed and responsive to the health needs of the nation,” he said.
Director for Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Sundeed Gupta, whose institution is funding the fellowship, said Malawi is facing significant human resource challenges.
Gupta said the challenges have the potential to implement HIV and Aids prevention and treatment activities.
“Our desire as United States government is to ensure that we address shortages in key human resources to manage an increasingly complex national HIV/Aids programme,” said Gupta.
Twelve people that graduated are the first to complete the two-year Fellowship Programme in HIV Leadership Development and Management Capacity Building Programme.
It is not true! We will feel the vacancies that is all they keep saying. There are just so many vacancies in technical departments of all the Ministries and we expect Malawi to develop. Check with the Ministries of Agriculture, Mining, Energy and Environment, Housing and Physical Planning for instance. It is so pathetic..