PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema has instructed the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) management to ensure health workers do not use mobile phones during working hours. President Hichilema says with the commissioning of the Cancer Diseases Hospital, patients will no longer have to travel overseas for treatment, noting that Zambia has now become the third country in Africa to host a regional facility of its kind. Speaking during the commissioning of the Cancer Diseases Hospital at UTH, Saturday, President Hichilema asked medical staff to stop using mobile phones in the wards. “I’m also asking the medical staff, let’s stop playing with our phones when we’re in the wards. Let’s stop watching games and patients are lying on the beds, let’s be proud of...

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