FORMER Health Minister Sylvia Masebo yesterday got visibly upset, after one of the volunteer health workers challenged her to identify some people that had been employed from Kabwata constituency. And Masebo says UPND is running a corruption free government. Some general workers who volunteered to work at the Heroes Stadium during the cholera outbreak stormed the Ministry of Health headquarters, demanding that they must be employed as directed by President Hakainde Hichilema. Addressing the volunteer workers, Masebo, who was with her successor, Elijah Muchima, said government, in collaboration with the Global Fund had agreed to employ 7,000 community health workers on a three year contract. But in questioning Masebo, a male volunteer, who identified himself as a community leader from...

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