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Dr. Catherine Chunda Liyoka
Dr. Catherine Chunda-Liyoka, consultant paediatrician at the University Teaching Hospitals-Children's Hospital, and national coordinator for Zambia, CONSA, said: “Newborn screening allows us to diagnosis a child very early in life. This ultimately reduces the likelihood of developing complications, making it cheaper to care for such a child through a potentially expensive, lifelong illness. Such a child can be cared for at a low-level health care facility by primary health care providers who can continue to provide the easy to source and implement, low-cost interventions. When these children don't have complications, they may live most of their lives without going into a specialized hospital, requiring specialized, expensive and complicated care.”