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President Sata’s son evacuated to South Africa for specialist treatment

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FILE: Vice President Guy Scott (right) talks to President Micahel Sata's son Kazimu (centre) and his wife Tiwonge Mukobeko during their wedding reception in Lusaka
FILE: Vice President Guy Scott (right) talks to President Micahel Sata’s son
Kazimu (centre) and his wife Tiwonge Mukobeko during their wedding
reception in Lusaka

PRESIDENT Sata’s son Kazimu has been evacuated to Johannesburg, South Africa, for specialist treatment for injuries suffered in a road traffic accident.

Kazimu was on Tuesday involved in a road traffic accident on the Kitwe-Ndola dual carriageway.

The accident happened around 17:30 hours near Kitwe’s Moba Hotel when the vehicle on which he was travelling overturned.

Ministry of Health permanent secretary David Chikamata confirmed in an interview in Lusaka yesterday that Mr Sata, who was earlier admitted at Kitwe’s Wusakile Mine Hospital, was evacuated to South Africa on Wednesday evening.

However, by press time, Dr Chikamata was yet to be availed with the details of the hospital that Kazimu has been admitted to.

“Yes, he [Kazimu] was evacuated last evening [Wednesday] and he has arrived in South Africa. I am, however, yet to get details from the Zambian mission on the hospital he has been admitted to,” Dr Chikamata said.

37 COMMENTS

    • This practice of evacuating patients to SA must stop as its being abused.
      It became rampant during MMD such that any politician no longer used local hospitals leading to negligent of unimaginable proportions for local hospitals.

      we spend colossal amounts of money and create jobs for SA instead of improving our own health service delivery so that we cut down on the drain on the treasury, create jobs locally and let the citizens enjoy and benefits from improved healt services.

      we need to start moving towards attracting others to be coming to our country for specialist treatment

    • @Saulosi, do you have some data on what body-parts are more affected, I hope he will not come back in wheel chair.

    • Moving patients after such trauma is not always a good idea. Kazimu may not come back alive.

      Please improve the country’s healthcare. Zambians need to fight for good healthcare more than anything else!

    • For President we have KING CABBAGE.

      And now the “family forrest” is changing into a FAMILY FORREST OF CABBAGES!

      All paid for by the poor Zambian taxpayer. This abuse of National resources must be STOPPED!

  1. From ZWD: The family of late Levy Mwanawasa have been angered by the ungrateful behaviour of President Michael Sata’s family for abandoning their injured relative who was in the same car with Sata’s son Kazimu after they were involved in a tragic road accident.

    When Sata was in a life threatening heart condition in 2008, it was late Levy Mwanawasa who personally intervened and had him evacuated to South Africa for specialist treatment that saw him survive and later became president after telling lies to the Zambian people.

    In their typical evil mentality, the PF government and president Michael Sata’s family have abandoned the other injured patients following the fatal accident in Ndola near Moba Hotel and only evacuated Sata’s son Kazimu to South Africa around 02:00 hours this…

  2. I hear those that achieve there goals through satanism will saccrife lots of innocent blood. in the end satan closes-in on your family in the manner before he takes you.

    • The jews have the technology that keeps a dead person alive for years. Remember Arial Sharron. Even yasser arrat was keeped alive while he was clinically dead.

    • You are an ***** mate! You can have the balls to call people ugly and yet you cannot show your pretty face. We are all made in the same image and we do not choose how we should look like, lest we have plastic surgeries. Grow up!

    • @Ken, I pity that family, even you dogs start to see beauty in yourself? Look at you in picture admiring Kazimu, are you on heat?

  3. Aarrggghhhh…please put it away! Why is this rotten government quick to tell us about the evacuation of a private person and fail to tell us anything about the head of state’s disappearances to medical facilities? Another case of misplaced priorities. You will pay heavily for this in 2016 or even, God willing, earlier.

  4. Sata is such ungrateful evil man. Why didn`t instruct all the victims —that include late Mwanawasa`s niece to be evacuated to South Africa.

    • Ask your self what she was doing with those boys,wasn’t the uncle a President at one time tafwafulile,she still wants to be around statehouse and in statehouse vehicles for what?

  5. I was surprised to hear that this guy used to move with two policemen as bodyguards. I think that is abuse of state resources for a person who is not a government official. Most Ministers and permanent secretaries move without bodyguards, what is so special with a President’s son who is over the age of 21, who probably doesn’t even stay in State House. Even that vehicle which was involved in accident is govt owned. Quick recovery though

  6. You will find the nurses that your father fired at UTH. They will just plug off life surport kit. You are in trouble the world is getting smaller now.

  7. It is sad, but God sees, knows before anything including politicians of Zambia. They can do what they do, according to them they are in control, time will come to pay what they are reaping this time around.

    May God have mercy

  8. Best deal for the taxpayer is if we don’t have to ever evacuate him again or supply him with 2 police officers throughout his father’s tyranny. Can the doctors in South Africa please help the Zambian taxpayer.

  9. “This thing of sending people to South Africa for specialist treatment must stop. What is so special about South Africa when we have our very own UTH here. We will bring it upto standard when we come into power within 90 days.”

    No prizes for guessing who said that!

  10. RANTING IGNORANTLY IS NOT RIGHT. NOT EVERYONE INVOLVED IN AN ACCIDENT NEEDS EVACUATION. EVEN WITHIN THE SAME ACCIDENT, VICTIMS CAN SUSTAIN DIFFERENT INJURIES TO DIFFERENT DEGREES. SOME MINOR BRUISES CAN BE MANAGED AT UTH OR EVEN AT A RURAL HEALTH CENTRE. OTHERS MAY NEED SPECIALIST TREATMENT WHICH WE MAY NOT HAVE HERE IN ZAMBIA. UNLESS YOU HAVE EVIDENCE FROM SPECIALISTS , IT WILL BE FOLLY TO MAKE WILD COMMENT. SIMPLY BECAUSE SATA WALLOPED YOU IN 2011 POLLS. HAVE A LIFE AND MOVE ON.

  11. Sad. Wish him a quick recovery. However, this practice of evacuation of a selected few is NOT the way to go. This is an area (medical) where we could have brought in Indian private investors to set up specialised hospitals NOT mining/Vendata or construction. I also do NOT subscribe to the notion/practice of assigning state security to the president’s children who are grown up. I grew up in KK’s days and I remember Cheswa Kaunda attending athletics at Kabwe secondary school in 1976 representing Dominican Convent school as a teenage girl without bodyguards and yet we had Mushala and liberation wars going on those days. What more for a grown up man like Kazimu? Let’s use police to fight crime not as status symbols for politicians’ grown up children (men)!

    • I totally agree. Kaunda’s children did not have bodyguards. I remember Wezi at UNZA driving a his own Nissan bluebird, playing football and everybody jokingly called him ‘Prince’. Now enter, pygmy Chiluba MHSRIP and his crony Levy MHSRIP, things changed and their offspring were placed on govt payroll. Wasting resources is an african epidemic. HH should come and promise that if he became President , all these excesses will be abolished OR NOT!

  12. How can we any sane person expect politician to improve the hospital conditions/facilities when they and their families don’t even use them??

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