Over 175, 000 patients across the country have accessed medical care through the mobile hospital units since their inception.
And 20, 000 operations were successfully conducted through the mobile hospital services since the units were introduced in the country.
Ministry of Health Director of Mobile and Emergency Health Services Welani Chilengwe said mobile hospitals have been a success story for Zambia and have greatly helped to take health care services closer to the people especially in rural areas.
Speaking when Chinese Ambassador to Zambia Zhuo Yuxiao inspected the operations of mobile hospitals in Chieftainess Chiawa’s area in Kafue district yesterday, Dr Chilengwe said government is in the process of acquiring a tenth mobile hospital unit with improved features such as utility vehicles and an ambulance for Muchinga province.
He said the government is committed to ensure health care services are delivered to the people in a clean, safe and conducive environment and for people to also get dignified health care services.
Dr Chilengwe said the mobile hospital units are doing so well and are appreciated by the people.
And Chinese Ambassador to Zambia Zhou Yuxiao said the Chinese government has rolled out the mobile hospital services programmes in other African countries following Zambia’s success story.
Ambassador Zhou said Zambia was used as a pioneer to see if the mobile health services would be useful in taking health care services to vulnerable people especially in rural areas and that now that mobile hospital services have proved a success in Zambia, the programme will be rolled out in other countries.
The Chinese envoy pledged his country’s continued support to improving health care delivery to the people of Zambia.
And Chieftainess Chiawa thanked the Zambian government for collaborating with the Chinese government in introducing mobile hospitals which she said have helped to take health care services to the people in the country.
Speaking through her representative, Kesia Sakala, Chieftainess Chiawa said the people in her area are ready to give the necessary support to the Ministry of Health in ensuring that mobile hospital services are a success story.
ZANIS
Is this not the same PF that fought RB tooth & nail over these same mobile hospitals? Why buy one for Muchinga. Why not just build a permanent structure which you wanted. I think the opposition will do well to have a slogan which says, “Never Trust PF (NTPF). Instead of buying one, why not ask Clive Chirwa to design up one? He said he could have designed better ones for Zambia.
@no. 1, RB had original ideas. I rest my case.
Zambians, we should just admit we’re fools (sorry) but it’s just true. Where is Membe, Fr Bwalya, Masebo, Mangani, etc who campaigned against all this? The guys were smart – Kabimba and them – ‘tell them what they want to hear and confuse them with that guy’s song and they’ll give us the vote’
Never cry over spilt milk, ever heard of that expression?
So it is true what we always say that the PF are dull chaps and lack focus for the country and the needs that people want. SO now the chiefs are shaming these people who insulted and fought RB over the mobile hospitals. We can see this was a good idea and I wonder what chikala Kabimba will say about this. Bu knowing these pathetic foools, they can never admit their wrong. We can just imagine how many wrongs this party has gone against!
I should admit, i am one of the persons that had a hostile attitude towards these so called mobile hospitals and if they have proved to be successful and the costs of running them are not beyond our reach then job well done Bwezani!
I like your sincerity because I equally was against them MB’s due to the terrible conditions of our roads, and there is nothing wrong in admitting a wrong when one errors. The consolation is is twofold though. The MMD under RB brought in the Mobiles Hospitals at the time the country had terrible roads. In fixing the roads, the PF have complimented what might have become a ghost project due to bad roads. We must give credit where it’s due and despite being a PF sympathiser, this one goes to the MMD and RB.
There is a big difference between a grade 3 policeman running a country and a president with with a masters regree…. RB was looking beyond the political noise made by PF and the Post. GOOD JOB RB, my relatives in the village can afford good health care through mobile hospitals
Harry Truman once said, the world is full educated derelicts.
The late Ian Smith developed Zimbambwe into a decent economy
and yet the man had no degree to his name. The man with degrees,
Bob Mugabe, has run the country into the ground.
To be educated is one thing to be a thinker is another.
Educating  imparts critical thinking in people and critical thinking is what Sata and his minsters lack, they are very shallow minded and petty. RB was a very much better president and his plans are now being enjoyed by PF. I remember very well how the idea of mobile hospital was demonized by PF and M’member  in his Post magazine.Â
We thank RB for this
Micheal Sata has a BA in political science. When are you critics going to accept that even  policeman can be graduates. What of Dr Jere, the IG and so many graduates who are heading the provinces and districts?
Very poor design. Only third world countries would accept such products.
And worse still, you paid for them.
I had a chance of using the same mobile hospitals, they are better than some permanent structures, these clinics and hospitals which look like public toilets.
At what cost? Enjoying something at a greater cost is not good in the long run. We should be building medical clinics not taking  this temporary measure. $56 million is a lot of money, we can build medium high class clinics at a cost of $1 million. We could have 56 clinics which people can visit everyday for rest of their lives. The doctors and nurses travelling with the trucks are happy because they are collecting hefty rural hardship allowances. The figures could be trebled if they had built permanent structures in the rural areas. Another waste of resources which should have been used prudently. Only a fool will choose a caravan over house!Â
What ‘successful operations’ can one perform in a mobile caravan? Zambians are full of wind! What will happen when these Chinese contraptions start to fall apart? Will that be the end of malaria, dysentery or cholera?
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