Itezhi-Tezhi District Health Office has acquired a multi-million state-of-the art mobile clinic to be used under the integrated Mobile Community Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) project.
The procurement of the Hino mobile clinic has been done under the Mobile VCT project under the Service Delivery Improvement Fund (SDIF) supported by the Public Service Management Division (PSMD).
Itezhi-Tezhi District Administrative Officer Charles Hampende, who is also a member of the Mobile VCT implementation committee confirmed the procurement of the mobile clinic to ZANIS in an interview today.
The public Service Management Division awarded the Itezhi-tezhi district health office among other eight projects worth over K1.2 Billion to carry out the Mobile Community VCT project in itezhi-tezhi district.
The mobile VCT concept was proposed by the District Health Office as a result of the geographic nature of the district where health posts and health centres are dispersed making difficult for most people in rural areas to access quality VCT services.
The mobile clinic is expected to carter for about 56,453 people of Itezhi-tezhi district. Most health centres in the district fail to deliver outreach services where 80% of the district’s population lives more than 15 kilometres from a health facility.
The mobile clinic is a self contained vehicle with all essential things like a refrigerator and medical equipment.
The major objectives of the integrated mobile VCT project are to provide health services, prevent and curative, provision of maternal health services and promotion of nutritional status and monitoring child development.
The service delivery improvement Fund was established by the government and cooperating partners’ in 2006 whose emphasis is on those activities which can bring about improvement in the service delivery of public service sector.
The cooperating partners include Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA), Department for International Development (DFID) and the International Development Association (IDA) of World Bank.
ENDS/ FM/PK/ZANIS
i thought this project for mobile hospitals was still in the process or the president has already decided
Kanshi ba govt balishita ama container clinic baletubepa
so the mobile clinics are already in the country? Too bad.
Iyo bwafya pa Zed. Another $53m wasted or pocketed by politicians.
Simbao Mwaiche ulebomba bwino but you should also increase the number of health institutions and reduce tuition fees in health institutions.
Good! What about the US$53M mobile government wants to buy from China?
From the story this seems not part of the US$53M mobile clinics the government is buying. Its just a separate venture by the district health office
Kelchi
i thought this project for mobile hospitals was still in the process or the president has already decided
This is a mobile clinic and not a mobile hospital (two different things). The project for mobile hospitals is still in process and has not been finalized yet.
Ubuntungwa mu Zambia
so the mobile clinics are already in the country? Too bad.
So far mobile clinics are in the country so yes.
Iyo bwafya pa Zed. Another $53m wasted or pocketed by politicians.
The $53 million is for mobile hospitals and not mobile clinics.
My intentions are completely benign today. I would like to follow Mungungulu’s prescription. I wont even answer back wiseman-reborn’s hot air. I intend to keep it that way, but I promise to become malignant if someone comes up with bad mouth like Mabenga.
#53 Its one and the same thing. Suppose the govt says they want to buy mobile clinics worth $53 are u going to say yes bwana RB buy?
Ubuntungwa mu Zambia
#53 Its one and the same thing. Suppose the govt says they want to buy mobile clinics worth $53 are u going to say yes bwana RB buy?
Mobile Clinics and Mobile Hospitals are two very different things. If the govt wanted to buy mobile clinics, I would not say “yes bwana” but establish the feasibility of the project (cover more ground, cheaper to maintain, enough for the current population,etc).
What verifiable proof do you have that some of the $53m meant for mobile hospitals was used in getting this mobile clinic?[your post on #3:Iyo bwafya pa Zed. Another $53m wasted or pocketed by politicians.]
What the health sector lacks at the moment are Trained motivated well paid staff, equipment, medicines and medical supplies.
Mobile Clinics/hospitals are a very short term temporal measure which should be intended to address the massive problems the country is facing in trying to provide health services to its citizens in an emergency. They are a very Economically senseless expensive venture. Who will man them, by the way?
Access to Health by moving the service to the people may be good for votes but very bad for economic sense. The Personnel handling the mobile clinics will need Allowances on top of the direct health delivery costs of wages, medicines, medical supplies, energy, fuel etc. thereby increasing the cost of the service for an already underfunded, understaffed health…
Let us distinguish between Clinic and Hospital, aini. This is a project initiated by the District. Namumfwako ati China? Ifi nifimbi.
wel, we need more details about this. these guys are fond of interchanging words! The clinics could the contetious issue in the papers!
stranger than fiction Monalisasyndrome, what we need in Zambia are genuine Zambians Not desai nor the pondors and the like
I meant #7 in comment 9.
#13. Why didn’t the district initiate constructing permanent clinic? Why opt for a mobile one. I am sure a normal person would go for a permanent structure. Unless all the people in that area are abnormal.
Ubuntungwa, unless you have not read the story. There is a reason why the mobile clinic was procurred. As for the normality or abnormality of the people in the area, thats up to you!
I think its a good idea, good for humping as well. The tour begins, councellors wanted! Ladies encouraged.
#13 Ba Moze, What is the difference between a Stream and a River, if I may ask? I thought the difference was in size. I am a bit lost about the difference between a Mobile clinic and a mobile hospital. You know it is very difficult for us grade 7 drop-outs from Kwacha Primary School in Kitwe (undereducates) to understand.
If the geographical landscape is that bad in the area that people fail to reach the health centres, how will the Mobile clinic reach the same people, especially in the rainy season?? Boggles the mind. And to be honest, K1.2bn (GB £14.4m) is just too much money to waste on a mobile clinic. Maybe I am quoting a wrong figure.
If the geographical landscape is that bad in the area that people fail to reach the health centres, how will the Mobile clinic reach the same people, especially in the rainy season?? Boggles the mind. And to be honest, K1.2bn (GB £14.4m) is just too much money to waste on a mobile clinic. Maybe I am quoting a wrong figure. Is it the British or American Billion
#15. wiseman-reborn. Your intentions are disgustingly obnoxious. You want to push me in a tight corner where I will not be able to punch back. I am a proud zambian with keen interest in what is going on in my country. You are no more Zambian than I am. Let me enjoy my 24 hours sabbatical, ok?
Bushe kanshi aya ama MOBILE PHONES ninsh bushe? Sorry ama mobile patients. Is it another one of those schemes to steal money from the Government? why not just build Hospitals…Ba president besu awe bena ba DRAMA.
#18 I am sure by now you know the type of leadership you have in Zambia. You think the govt will come out in open and tell you that now the mobile hospitals from China are in. They will try and use such type of language so that you don’t suspect them. Open your eyes.
Kwathu Ku Chitine ichi, From my angle, it is difficult to walk long distances if you are sick. It is obvious that mobility in this case refers to moving the medical facility nearer to the people. Lets be appreciative here. The money you talk about was probably given by donors. Why the fuss?
Ubuntungwa Mu Zed #25, believe you me, my eyes are open, that China thing has not yet started. We are alert. Dora sanapite round, ka.
Unless RB escapes prosecution by dying, he is one cat i will want to visit in prison
Ba Moze Bakalamba, your arguments lacks substance, Allowance will chew all the funds meant to be for medicines and other supplies. Mwalaba shani. Housing Allowances issue?? That mobile whatever will not be everywhere all the time. If the money had been spent on improving the existing District Hospital by improving staff levels, re-equipping and restocking on vital medical supplies and drugs, and then an effective transport system was put in place for transfer of patients, I believe it would have been a lasting solution. And VCT is not always an emergence by the way. So why the rush? Improve manpower and diagnostic capacity at District Hospital and Health Centre Level, then you would have nailed it.
Even if they bought 200 mobiles, without trained staff, its an activity in futility
Free market economy you know better. But are roads accessable in rural areas like Itezhi tezhi > TT? It was in the 1980 when I used to visit this area from Lusaka.
I dont understand why this character called RB is always out of phase with the needs of the people.
A chinese govt officer who recently visited Zambia dennied knowledge of mobile hospital contract. The ackward question is (How come that the chinese govt is in dark about this matter?) while the Zambians are championing it.
It will benefit the workers not the patients. Just buy more drugs to supply to rural health centres instead.