HEALTH Minister Dr Elijah Muchima says the Ministry will prioritise health workers who have volunteered for three to four years in this year’s recruitment of 2,000 health workers. Dr Muchima says it was difficult to scrutinise volunteers during the recent recruitment as their numbers kept growing and growing. Speaking after he toured the Kasumbalesa cholera centre, Saturday, Dr Muchima assured that the Ministry would give priority to volunteers. “What has happened is [that] when the President made a pronouncement in Heroes Stadium, people were taken note of, identities and books were signed off. When it came for recruitment for those people, they are being screened by the Public Service Commission but from nowhere, that number does not end. Everyone, ‘it’s...
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