HOUSE of Chiefs Chairperson Chief Chisunka has echoed Health Minister Elijah Muchima’s statement that people in rural areas are not so addicted to drugs and alcohol because they are more God-fearing than those in towns. But Senior Chief Kopa of the Bisa speaking people says it is a 50/50 affair because both those in the villages and towns are bound to have respect for the laws of God. On February 14, 2025, Muchima paid an impromptu visit to Chainama Hills Hospital where the Hospital’s Senior Medical Superintendent Dr Margaret Chibowa informed him that the facility was treating children as young as 11 for drug and alcohol abuse. Muchima observed that rural areas did not have some of these problems because the people there...