HEALTH Minister Sylva Masebo says her Ministry will soon start transferring health workers from Lusaka to rural areas because there are too many of them in Lusaka. Asked in Parliament by Chama North PF MP Yotam Mtayachalo on what her Ministry was doing to ensure that medical staff did not leave his constituency shortly after being deployed, Masebo said government won’t tolerate such kind of behaviour from health workers. “I think this is a very important and fair question. We have seen a trend not only by medical doctors, many of our staff when they are getting employed, they say we are going to work in a rural area. After three months, they start talking about transfers back to town...

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