Ministry of Health Zambia

10/04/2026

10/04/2026

Health Minister, Hon. Dr. Alex Katakwe, this morning, held a meeting with senior management from Ministry of Health HQ.

The Minister underscored that the national level management is critical to delivering quality healthcare services and achieving improved health outcomes for all citizens.

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10/04/2026

MOH in W/P starts a mission of sensitizing learners on substance abuse

THE Ministry of Health in Western Province has started a programme of going round schools sensitizing learners on the dangers of substance abuse.

This programme is earmarked to be conducted in all districts of that province with the major view of ensuring that adolescents in schools have been reached and sensitized on the effects of substance abuse.

Ms Fridah Tembo-Sihulu is the provincial mental health coordinator and explains that the Ministry of Health in the province decided to initiate that program with the view of reaching adolescents in schools.

She said in January this year the Provincial Health Office wrote to the Provincial Education Office to request that health experts specialized in mental health in all districts be going into schools and talking to learners of the dangers of abusing substances.

The Provincial Education Office responded to that request in an affirmative way, hence mental health experts in districts started visiting schools and talking to the adolescent learners on the dangers of abusing drugs and other intoxicating substances.

The mental health experts who are visiting young boys and young girls are equally talking on mental health, stress and depression and also encouraging them to avoid other illicit drugs but to highly concentrate on their education.

Ms Tembo-Sihulu said being a motivation speaker herself and someone who has trained in public speaking she enjoys talking with learners and ensures that each child could appreciate her ‘’sermons.’’

She narrates Kaoma district was so far reported to have been doing fine as the mental health offices in that district had already visited more than 10 schools and talked to about 500 learners.

Another noted district which is on record as doing fine in visiting schools is Mongu where Ms Tembo-Sihulu is based. In Mongu almost all schools which are around and peripherals of the Central Business District (CBD) area are already visited.

They do those activities willingly as they believe in positive contribution through their efforts of fostering and promoting positive decision-making practices among young adolescents and youths.

The provincial mental coordinator also notes that if the adolescents were sensitized and gotten the needed massages, that could result into mitigation of suicides deaths among the youths and improve of academic learning outcomes.

She finally commended all mental officers in all districts of that province who she notes that they are out in all their efforts to visit schools, despite their busy schedules of other routine programmes.

*Communication and Public Relations Unit - MOH*

*Picture courtesy: MOH – Western Province – Mental Health Team*

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Delay in Publication of Names of Recruited Medical Personnel

09/04/2026

The total recruited in this particular exercise is 3,205, broken down as follows:

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Names of successful candidates will be published in the Zambia Daily Mail and
The Times of Zambia tomorrow, the 10th of April, 2026

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The total number of those recruited in this particular exercise is 3,205.

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🔴 LIVE NOW: Update on Health Worker Recruitment

Join us live as the Civil Service Commission provides an important update on the recruitment of 2,000 health workers for 2025.

Stay with us for the latest details and key announcements.

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09/04/2026

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Student leaders from the National Council of Students’ Unions have expressed strong eagerness to partner with the Ministry of Health in advancing health advocacy and promoting positive health behaviors among students and the wider Zambian youth, during a courtesy call on the Minister of Health.

Minister of Health, Dr. Alex Katakwe, welcomed the initiative and reaffirmed Government’s commitment to working with young people as key partners in strengthening health systems, promoting wellness, and driving impactful, youth-led health interventions across the country.