By JULIUS PHIRI –
EASTERN Albino Care Centre in Zambia director, Zacheus Tembo has appealed to Government to expand the programme of providing health care, education and protection to albinos in the province.
Mr Tembo said doing so would assist a lot of people living with albinism who were in desperate need of basic services.
He said people living with albinism required special care and protection from the Government and other stakeholders.
Mr Tembo said children living with albinism needed special eye care before they reached the age of seven but most of them did not manage to access services from eye specialists. He said there was need to enforce human rights for special interest groups who had been marginalised for years.
He also condemned the behaviour of people whom he said had continued calling albinos derogatory names saying doing so was stigmatising them.
