By MAYA NTANDA –
GOVERNMENT has placed emphasis on provision of service delivery to the people, Community Development, Mother and Child Health Minister Emerine Kabanshi has said.

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Ms Kabanshi said that demand for infrastructure development was growing and that the Government was in the right direction in ensuring that it provided for the people.
She was speaking when she conducted a tour of Nkana East, Chamboli and Mulenga Township clinics in Kitwe yesterday.
Nkana East and Chamboli clinics are yet to be opened to the public while the Mulenga Township clinic is already operational.
Ms Kabanshi said expansion works at the Nkana East Clinic should be concluded before the structure was handed over to the community to avoid disturbing patients, especially mothers under the maternity wing.
“We need to do things properly and in a planned manner and as Government we want to make this clinic open so that service provision in health can be delivered to the people,” she said.
Ms Kabanshi said expansion works needed to be done and expressed happiness with the works that had been conducted so far.
A Kitwe resident Jonathan Banda appealed to the Government not to prolong the opening of the Nkana East Clinic to prevent acts of vandalism taking a toll on the new structure.
Mr Banda appealed to the minister to consider opening the clinic and conduct expansion programmes at a later stage.
Ms Kabanshi, who also toured the Zambia Deaf, Youth and Women Disability Centre in Kawama Township, said education was vital to national development.
She said the Patriotic Front was implementing programmes that it promised the people and that disabled should also have access to education.