GOVERNMENT has given Southern Province five ambulances equipped with advanced life support equipment for pre-hospital care to be provided by trained personnel while a patient is being taken to hospital.
Two of the ambulances will be stationed at Livingstone General hospital and the other three have been sent to Choma, Monze and Mazabuka.
Presenting the ambulances, Livingstone member of Parliament Lawrence Evans said the new vehicles will facilitate emergency health care to patients as they are being taken to a health centre.
Mr Evans said this yesterday in Livingstone during Livingstone General hospital open day.
“The ambulances are fully equipped with first aid medication for emergency treatment.
We all know that good health is an essential prerequisite for national development and as such Government is committed in providing good health care in the country,” he said.
Mr Evans said Government has sent abroad 40 nurses from various hospitals to train in emergency healthcare among those, four are from Livingstone General hospital.
He said the efforts are meant to strengthen emergency healthcare services to ensure efficiency and effectiveness in the healthcare delivery system.
He said open days are important as they offer the community an opportunity to interact with the hospital staff.
Mr Evans said an open day provides hospital staff an opportunity to appreciate concerns from stakeholders and address them.
Earlier, acting provincial medical officer Namani Monze thanked Government for the improvements made in hospitals countrywide in the area of equipment and infrastructure.
Dr Monze said the Ministry of health is working on upgrading Livingstone general hospital into a university teaching hospital.
“In the last few years, hospitals have seen unprecedented improvements. We are grateful to Government as this has helped to improve service delivery not only for Livingstone residents, but also the entire province,” he said.
Meanwhile Mr Evans has pledged 100 pockets of cement towards the construction of a wall fence while Livingstone district commissioner Omar Munsanje, City Mayor Milford Maambo, Livingstone general hospital acting medical supritendant Dr Muzaza Ntele and Dr Monze pledged 10 pockets of cement each.
PF at work
Other provinces are not saying what of us??
Patiency pays.
WORK? Just ambulances, its a joke. We need tangible development. Let PF give the people a new constitution, then we can say PF AT WORK! What they are giving are bread crumbs to southern province compared to two universities in Luapula! We are watching you!
BORING!PF don’t blow your own trumpet or vuvuzela.You mean 5 ambulances for the whole province?That is the minimum number Livingstone district is supposed to have.Is that really worth the news?
Oh by the way you can ask how many ambulances Princess Marina Hospital,Botswana has?In fact when the ministry acquires new ones ,they just request for drivers to go and collect them from the ministry.
Please next time tell us something exciting like the president will be meeting opposition leaders to map way forward for the economic development of the counrty.
Which opposition leaders?? You want them to start laughing at the Boss ??
CHINA you don’t think, life is more important than your constitution , you are talking of that paper because you are not ill , and not at war go and ask some one on death bed if he wants a constitution, or his relatives , you cant expect anything less than calling you a witch
Those are the best health facilities Zambians need, they are second to none you say so because you don’t know them ,ignorance is your game how can you appreciate what you don’t know , those are ambulances used in developed countries you are lucky even you get those five
YES THESE AMBULANCES ARE FIT FOR UPND STRONGHOLD OF SOUTHERN PROVINCE, KEEP THEM WELL THEY SHALL SERVE U WELL IN 2016, PANTU JERABOZ WILL BE IN THE AREA..KUZIIMA