PRESIDENT Mwanawasa has announced that he intends to upgrade all townships in the country, improve the road network and revive the Njanji Commuter Train now that his administration has managed to improve the economy.
Mr Mwanawasa also announced that his administration intended to build a provincial hospital in Lusaka to be a second referral hospital apart from the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) and another one in Chongwe.
Addressing thousands of Lusaka residents in Zingalume township at Muchinga grounds in Lusaka yesterday, Mr Mwanawasa urged the people to renew his mandate to enable him implement his vision in full.
He said in the last five years, his administration worked hard to stabilise the economy and now time had come to improve the living standards of the people.
"It is not easy to achieve everything at once like they are telling you. Even developed countries are still developing," he said.
He warned Zambians to be wary of politicians promising heaven on earth when they failed to do so when they served in the previous governments and administrations.
"They will even tell you that when they come into government, you will stop dying," he added.
His Government would not only build clinics but also ensure that new structures were fully equipped with drugs and recruit more medical personnel to enable majority of Zambians access better health facilities.
If the economy continued with its steadfast trend, his administration would abolish user fees in all hospitals, a move that had already been implemented in rural health centres.
He said his Government had released K7.3 billion to buy drugs for all hospitals and that his administration would continue to build on the firm foundation that it had built.
Mr Mwanawasa said people should not waste votes on opposition leaders because the MMD in the last five years had established a number of things that needed attention and that he would address them that in the next five years of office.
He said some politicians would turn the country into a dictatorship if voted into office because they would fail to implement a number of things they were promising, which were not attainable.
Mr Mwanawasa said his administration was exploring ways of establishing either ring or cantilever roads to reduce congestion in the city of Lusaka.
He predicted outright victory for the MMD, saying the campaigns being undertaken were merely meant to ensure that the ruling party won with a landslide margin.
Earlier, MMD Lusaka Province chairperson Geoffrey Chumbwe assured Mr Mwanawasa that come September 28, the party in the province would deliver an outright victory because of the good groundwork done so far.
"Your Excellency, you have achieved a lot so far and to reward you we will ensure that you come back to complete your two five-year term," he said.
