And preliminary investigations have indicated that more equipment and drugs have been stolen from the hospital.
Copperbelt deputy police chief, Milner Muyambango, said yesterday that KCH management had not been cooperating with the officers carrying out the investigations.
Mr Muyambango said there were many unanswered questions on the failure by the hospital management to report the matter to the police when they discovered that the machine, worth K40 million, was missing from the theatre.
The hospital management also failed to inform the Ministry of Health on the missing machine until the TIMES sent a query to ministry spokesperson, Kamoto Mbewe.
Mr Muyambango said the theatre machine went missing between October 9 and 10 this year but hospital management did not report the matter to the police.
He said preliminary investigations had revealed that the missing machine was part of the equipment the Government recently bought to improve health services in the country.
He said the probe had further revealed that some employees were stealing drugs from the pharmacy using fake documents.
“There is a lot of dishonesty at Kitwe Central Hospital but the police are on the ground and will ensure that the law takes its course,” he said.
Recently, Dr Mbewe said the Ministry of Health had constituted a team to audit equipment at KCH to determine what had gone missing, but the team had not travelled to Kitwe by Press time.
[Times of Zambia]
LT, you don’t have a picture of Kitwe Central hospital? Get one from; zambiandoctors.com/zambianhospitals/kitwecentral.html.
Yet someone tellme we have to ignore all this and just move on! Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is what happens when stealing can be found on genes! It becomes normal. My appeal to H.E MCS is to, probe them thoroughly, fire the lot and send them to prison.
why are we being shown a picture of shoprite?
I can assure you that no one will be found wanting here and the case can as well close. Check the surnames of the people involved in this scandal. 11 of them are Chansa, Musonda, Mwamba, Bwalya, etc and you expect MCS to have these fired? You must be insane. Had these guys been from Solwezi, Monze etc, they would be in jail by now.
Kaponya mentality even in hospitals. Jail the bastards!!!
Hachisushi, i cant see those names you’ve written boy!
A lot of pipo ar dyin coz these monkies hav stolen medicine en machinery en taken em kutuma so kod hospitals of theirs.thoz involvd wn found wantin shud b jailed wetha their names ar bemba affiliatd o nt
PAPA .J
The reporting is pathetic. What machine is missing?
Too many tuntemba hospitals in kitwe being run by some Doctors working at kitwe central hospital , they came from their countries wearing patapatas now they they can wear proper shoes. Those hospitals are Death traps,especially one in Parklands residential area  whose name I cannot remember .People are being taken for a ride because the Government does not seem to have regulation in place , Patients being operated on unnecessarily , it’s frightening.
Too many tuntemba hospitals in kitwe being run by some Doctors working at kitwe central hospital , they came from their countries wearing patapatas now they they can wear proper shoes. Those hospitals are Death traps,especially one in Parklands residential area  whose name I cannot remember .People are being taken for a ride because the Government does not seem to have regulation in place , Patients being operated on unnecessarily , it’s frightening.
@ 6 yaba wandepula mwandi ati hachisushi !!!
Guy this is madness or madness having access to influence.Surely how can u put a picture of shoprite on a story concerning a hospital?.
And we have a very dull chap programmed to connect everything to bembas.
Okay gents dig yo graves.
No. 9 its you who is pathetic, if you read again the introductory paragraph the machine is clearly stated
Ba doctor na ba nurse they are stealing from hospitals and stocking up their surgeries
Its high time the Government considered building a new ultra modern hospital in Kitwe particularly on the southern part of the City.This one built in 1950s is too small for the ever growing population of Kitwe.Iam told the infrastructure is in a deplorable situation and the theater roof leaks.How can you carry out an operation is such leaking building let say when it is a rain day?Â