Category: Gender & health

POWER TOOLS BUS INVOLVED IN A ROAD ACCIDENT Lusaka, 2nd May 2020 – A Power Tools bus has been involved in a fatal road traffic accident this morning in Manyinga district of North Western Province. Involved was a Scania Bus registration number ALT 2165 belonging to Power Tools. According to preliminary investigations conducted by the Road Transport and Safety Agency (RTSA), the accident happened after the driver of the bus identified as Christopher Mulenga, lost control of the bus when he was crossing the Kabompo River at Mundanya, hit the sides of the bridge and plunged on the river bank....

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PRESS STATEMENT-3rd MAY, 2020 NAQEZ CALLS FOR AN EMERGENCY INDABA TO RESTRUCTURE THE NATIONAL ACADEMIC CALENDER Now that it very clear that the novel Corona virus has managed to fundamentally disturb the Zambian academic calendar, just like the case is across the world, National Action for Quality Education in Zambia [NAQEZ] is calling for an emergency stakeholder’s indaba for collective restructuring of the national academic calendar. As an outfit promoting quality education in the country, NAQEZ urges the two Ministries of Education to convene a meeting of educational stakeholders to critically analyze the effects of the pandemic on education, so...

SUNDAY, 3rd May 2020- The Ministry of Health has confirmed and regretted the death of Ian Mutambo a Lab Technician from Zambezi District Hospital who lost his life in a road traffic accident in the time of duty. Ian was transporting samples of suspected Coronavirus Disease from Zambezi on a power tools bus which was involved in a fatal accident on Saturday 2nd May 2020 in Manyinga District of Northwestern Province killing 3 other people aboard. Minister of Health Chitalu Chilufya is saddened, disclosing that it is the first time samples of suspected COVID-19 were being transported by public transport,...