First lady dr christine kaseba in hospital
Christine Kaseba
First Lady of Zambia from 2011 to 2014
Christine Kaseba is a Zambianphysician, surgeon and politician who served as the First Lady of Zambia from September 2011 until her husband's death in October 2014. She is the widow of former PresidentMichael Sata, who died in office on October 28, 2014. Kaseba made an unsuccessful bid for President of Zambia in the January 2015 special presidential election to succeed her husband. She was appointed Zambian Ambassador to France on April 16, 2018.
Biography
Kaseba was the second wife of Michael Sata, the country's president from 2011 to 2014. Christine Kaseba and Michael Sata had eight children together. Prior to marrying Kaseba, Sata had been married to his first wife, Margaret Manda.
Kaseba is a long-time physician and surgeon, specializing in gynecology and obstetrics, at University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka. She served as the First Lady of Zambia from 2011 until the death of her husband, President Sata, on October 28, 2014. Kaseba was appointed a World Health Organization Goodwill Ambassador against gender violence from 2012 to 2014.
While serving as first lady, she led campaigns against Breast and Cervical cancer under the Forum for African First Ladies. She also significantly contributed to the 6th Stop Cervical Cancer in Africa (SCCA) conference held on July 24, 2012 in Zambia.
Kaseba announced her candidacy for President of Zambia shortly after her husband's death. She filed her nomination papers on November 18, 2014, to contest the January 2015 presidential by-election as a member of Sata's Patriotic Front (PF). Kaseba was one of nine to compete for the PF nomination for president. However, Kaseba and the other seven PF candidates lost their party's nomination to Edgar Lungu at the party's November general conference Christine Kaseba is a Zambianphysician, surgeon and politician. She was the First Lady of Zambia from September 2011 until October 2014. She is the widow of former PresidentMichael Sata, who died in office on October 28, 2014. She is also a long-time physician and surgeon, specializing in gynecology and obstetrics, at University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka. Kaseba was the second wife of Michael Sata, the country's president from 2011 to 2014. Christine Kaseba and Michael Sata had eight children together. On November 18, 2014 Kaseba filed her nomination papers to contest the January 2015 presidential by-election under the Patriotic Front party shortly after her husband's death. However, she and other seven PF candidates lost their party's nomination to Edgar Lungu at the party's November general conference. In 2016, it was reported that Christine Kaseba might be chosen as the vice presidential running mate of UPND presidential nominee, Hakainde Hichilema, for the 2016 election. Kaseba serves on the Global Task Force on Expanded Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries.Christine Kaseba
Life and career
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International Development Minister Lynne Featherstone met with the First Lady of Zambia, Dr Christine Kaseba-Sata - who represented Zambia at the London Summit on Family Planning this year.
Mothers in Zambia are 75 times more likely to die in pregnancy than mothers in the UK. Zambia has made commitments to double its budget to family planning commodities, to improve universal coverage, to begin dialogue with religious and traditional leaders and to allow some community health workers to deliver more family planning methods. An eight year plan is expected to be launched this month.
The First Lady of Zambia, Dr Kaseba-Sata, is a consultant obstetrician & gynaecologist who worked at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka for more than 25 years. She became a Member of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in London in 1995. She has lectured at the school of medicine for over 15 years and has been involved in key reproductive health research projects and is a national trainer in many areas, including gender based violence. She has developed many of the clinical reproductive health guidelines for Zambia and sits on key national committees including the cervical cancer taskforce. She has also established Ubutala Ubwa Bumi (A Haven of Wellbeing) Community Initiative.
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First Lady of the Republic of Zambia
Christine Kaseba is the First Lady of the Republic of Zambia. She has been working at the University Teaching Hospital in Lusaka for more than 25 years. Apart from Clinical work, Dr Kaseba-Sata has also been lecturing at the only school of Medicine in Zambia for the past 15 years. She is a Zambian Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist.
In a country where all praise for the government or the rulers is so adored by the powers that be and their disciples and where criticism is routinely dismissed as a sign of bitterness, there is always trouble finding the right balance. But the curious case of First Lady Christine Kaseba comes to mind. Her ladyship has been in the limelight for the better part of the time her husband His Excellency President Michael Sata has been in power. Nothing wrong with that given that she is the First Lady, a pillar upon which the Presidency rests. This is so because of her endless efforts to foster change in the health sector.
In 2013, she was in Choma, where she joined other medical specialists in conducting several operations at Choma General Hospital. Dr Kaseba’s two-day working visit was part of the 10-day mobile
JUWELS MAGAZINE outreach programme organised by the Ministry of Health, Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child and Ubutala Bwa Bumi, a non-governmental organisation which she runs.
The First Lady, who is an obstetrician and a gynaecologist, was joined by other specialist medical officers in performing several operations ranging from gynaecology complications to removal of fibroids and ovaries and so on.
Well, just like her hardworking husband our dear president his Excellency Mr. Michael Chilufya Sata, she too is a Woman of Action.