41-year-old-Redus-Moono-caught-the-attention-of-onlookers.
On Thursday as he arrived at Moyo Hospital with his one-year-nine-months-old son fastened to his back with a wrapper.
Little Nchimunya was weak, tired and was easily irritable as a result of a sore throat and vomiting which started two days back forcing his father, Moono to walk with him a distance of four kilometers from his Hamabonka village to the only health facility in the area.
Asked where the mother of child was, Moono explained that he asked her to stay home because the distance she would have to walk to reach them hospital was too long.
“Women have to walk a long distance through the bush to reach the hospital and sometimes they are attacked and raped. So when my children are unwell I have taken up the duties of taking them to the hospital because I can manage to walk long distances and defend myself if I am attacked,” explained the father of five.
He said the health of children and their general wellbeing was not the sole responsibility of mothers but both parents.
“Children bring joy to both parents and when they grow up, they provide help to both parents so it is the duty of both the mother and father to ensure that they grow healthy he said.
He urged husbands that believed in abusing women and leaving all the duties of children to them to reconsider and get involved.
He revealed that he had been married for 20 years but had never beaten his wife.
“Women are meant to be loved, why should you beat your wife? The issue of beating wives and abusing women is old fashioned,” said Moono.
The hospital where Moono had brought his son was initially a rural health centre but World Vision has upgraded it to a 50-bed capacity modern facility equipped with medical equipment and six staff houses at a cost of MK8.1 million and is yet to be handed over to the government
