IN 2024, the percentage of alcohol related conditions dropped to 38 percent, from 49 percent recorded in 2023, Chainama Hills Hospital Senior Medical Superintendent, Dr Margaret Chibowa has disclosed. And Dr Chibowa says the facility treats children as young as 11 who are addicted to drugs and alcohol. Meanwhile, Health Minister Elijah Muchima, who paid an impromptu visit to the hospital on Thursday, observed that rural areas did not have some of these problems because the people there were more God-fearing. Speaking as she showed Muchima around in Ward E, Dr Chibowa disclosed that the percentage of alcohol related conditions dropped to 38 percent in 2024. “When we look at our statistics, the majority of the patients that we see...