SPEECH BY THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION CHAIRPERSON, DR. CHOOLWE BEYANI, ON FRIDAY, 24TH JANUARY 2025 TO ANNOUNCE THE RECRUITMENT OF 4000 HEALTH WORKERS.
I am delighted that you could join us today for the civil service commission briefing to update the nation, through you our colleagues in the media, on the recruitment of the 4000 health workers.
Government has continued to show its commitment to ensuring that service delivery is enhanced through the recruitment of professionals in all sectors.
Ladies and gentlemen,
You may recall that in 2022, government recruited 11,276 health workers followed by the 2023 recruitment of 3,250.
Today, it gives me great pleasure to announce that the 2024 recruitment of health workers under the ministry of health has been completed, with a total of 4,140 candidates recruited into the public service.
The names of the successful candidates will be published in the zambia daily mail and the times of zambia on monday, 27th january 2025.
The successful candidates are advised to collect their appointment letters from the respective provincial health offices starting wednesday, 29th january 2025 from 09:00hrs.
The successful candidates will be expected to present their national registration cards (nrc’s) and original copies of their professional qualifications for ease of identification and verification respectively.
Members of the press,
Allow me now to share the breakdown of the 4,140 successful candidates:
3,494 were recruited through the competitive process spearheaded by the district sub-committees and provincial human resource management committees, while 646 candidates were professional cholera volunteers as per government’s commitment that all the professional health cholera volunteers will be recruited through this process.
The distribution of positions by province is as follows:
- COPPERBELT PROVINCE, 529
- SOUTHERN PROVINCE, 493
- EASTERN PROVINCE, 491
- LUAPULA PROVINCE, 430
- NORTHERN PROVINCE, 420
- NORTH WESTERN PROVINCE, 400
- WESTERN PROVINCE, 415
- CENTRAL PROVINCE, 337
- LUSAKA PROVINCE, 339 POSITIONS AND;
- MUCHINGA PROVINCE, 286
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,
THE BREAKDOWN OF THE RECRUITMENT ACROSS VARIOUS CATEGORIES IS AS FOLLOWS:
- REGISTERED NURSES: 957
- REGISTERED MIDWIVES: 595
- CLINICAL OFFICER – GENERAL: 521
- ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TECHNOLOGISTS: 398
- JUNIOR RESIDENT MEDICAL OFFICERS: 391
- MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGISTS: 179
- PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES: 126
- MEDICAL RECORDS CLERKS: 118
- COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSISTANTS: 95
- MEDICAL LICENTIATES: 69
- EMERGENCY MEDICAL TECHNICIANS: 50
- RADIOGRAPHY TECHNOLOGISTS: 48
- PHYSIOTHERAPY TECHNOLOGISTS: 43
- DENTAL ASSISTANTS: 40
- NUTRITION TECHNOLOGISTS: 39
- CLINICAL NURSES: 38
- PHARMACISTS: 38
- REGISTRY CLERKS: 38
- REVENUE COLLECTORS: 37
- CLINICAL OFFICER – PSYCHIATRY: 31
- MEDICAL EQUIPMENT TECHNOLOGISTS: 28
- REGISTERED MENTAL HEALTH NURSES: 23
- BIOMEDICAL SCIENTISTS: 18
- DENTAL SURGEON INTERNS: 18
- PSYCHO-SOCIAL COUNSELORS: 18
- OPTOMETRY TECHNOLOGISTS: 17
- PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICERS: 16
- DENTAL THERAPISTS: 15
- PHYSIOTHERAPISTS: 15
- ANAESTHETIC OFFICERS: 4
- LABORATORY SCIENTISTS: 4
- MENTAL HEALTH OFFICERS: 4
- NUTRITIONISTS: 4
- OPTOMETRISTS: 4
- OPHTHALMIC OFFICERS: 3
- ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH OFFICERS: 3
- DATA ENTRY CLERKS: 3
- RADIOGRAPHERS: 3
- CLINICAL OFFICER – OPHTHALMOLOGY: 1
- COOK: 1
- DENTAL TECHNOLOGIST: 1
- PHARMACIST INTERN: 1
- SCIENCE LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIST: 1
- WAITER: 1
Ladies and gentlemen,
This recruitment is testimony of president hakainde hichilema’s commitment to not only creating sustainable employment but also enhancing citizen’s participation in the process of recruitment.
In ensuring that the decentralisation agenda is actualised, as stated earlier, this recruitment was spearheaded by the districts, supervised by the provinces through the established human resource management committees (hrmcs).
This recruitment is your recruitment because the successful candidates were identified and selected by the districts themselves. I therefore wish to urge the communities to help these newly recruited young people to settle in their new roles so that the intended service delivery can be provided without interruption.
Further, i urge successful candidates to seize the opportunity to serve the public with a great sense of responsibility and professionalism in order to drive our country’s service delivery to higher heights.
To the unsuccessful candidates, i wish to urge you not to lose hope as government has shown commitment to ensuring that considerably substantive numbers are employed annually.
Today may not be your turn but tomorrow might be yours, so hang on in there. As already announced, in the year 2025, government will recruit yet more health workers in various categories, whose numbers are yet to be determined.
I wish to thank all those who participated in this recruitment process for their diligence, sacrifice and commitment to ensure that this process reaches where we are today.
I also wish to reiterate that, as promised, all the professional cholera volunteers, totalling 646 formed part of this recruitment and their names will be published on the dates that have been mentioned.
I wish to repeat that the names of the professional cholera volunteers and the successful applicants will be published on monday, 27th january 2025 while the appointment letters should be collected starting wednesday 29th january 2025.
In closing, i wish to congratulate the successful candidates and encourage them to serve their communities diligently.
I THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION AND GOD BLESS YOU ALL!