Government has procured 208 ambulances to be distributed to various health centers countrywide, Community Development, Mother and Child Health deputy Minister Jean Kapata has told Parliament.
Ms Kapata told Parliament on Tuesday that the ambulances had started arriving in the country and would be distributed to districts to help address health delivery hurdles especially in rural areas.
Ms Kapata said this in response to UPND Sesheke Member of Parliament (MP) Siyauya Sianga who wanted to find out why funding to Yeta Hospital in Sesheke was erratic.
Ms Kapata said mismanagement of resources at some health centers and districts was hampering proper health delivery services in some parts of the country.
She said Government was committed to ensure adequate funding to various health centers but that mismanagement of resources was affecting health services.
“As Government, we are committed to ensuring that there is adequate funding to various districts but the problems at Yeta Hospital are due to mismanagement of resources once released to the district and our policy is that every institution must account for the funds released before another allocation is released.
“To ease some of the problems we are encountering in the provision of health delivery services, Government has procured 208 ambulances for all the hospitals in various district and this figure, is far beyond the number of districts we have and they will be sufficient,” she said.
where are they show us please……….bloted cabinet and no one has the guts to resign or just to complain that you are too many ministers with freebies from which funds are you paid FROM?GREEDNESS IS THE ROOT CAUSE OF POVERTY
Ambulances are need, with all these protests against Kabimba!?
good ‘deed’ overshadowed by these endless bickering…
“Have started arriving in the country and will be distributed……” Such piecemeal arrivals – I hope someone monitors this for us, to count them at the end of the ‘arrivals’! Otherwise, it will end up at a parliamentary response stage!
You will collapse with BP.This is just politics.
please consider Maamba District Hospital for the ambulance,at the moment the hospital has no utility vehicle and worse still no ambulance please,please on behalf of the people of Maamba and Sinazongwe grz give us atleast an Ambulance………..
Have tender procedures been followed in this procurement?
Good job well done. Please dont steal them like the MMD did .
Peace and Prosperity to Mother Zambia.
Hope they won’t turn them into staff buses, too much ubupuba mu Zambia.
Not just staff buses but personal to holder for the doctor or matron. I recently saw a Kasama ambulance in Livingstone. I am sure if i had asked i would have been given a ‘good and convincing reason” for this but really there is no reason at all why a Kasama ambulance should be in Livingstone.
Hope so it was a shame that kabwe gen hosp and kabwe mini hosp don’t have an ambulance,until a well wisher Vwalika donated a brand new ambulance to mine hosp while govt a busy changing ministerial pageros
Why release such information from a point of order? I am certain this is when they are being procured.
and dont forget mobile hospitals too.in some rural areas people are still walking long distances to seek medical attention.
Mismanagement of resources is still a big problem and and it hampers development, since we do everything manually, it is very hard to trace the culprits. It is high time we automated every department in the health sector. Every person caught mismanaging govt resources should be caged for a long time to send a strong message to would be culprits!
Is fat Kasebanya going to take over the running of these as well to use in her campaign to take over from her ailing sugar daddy which will be covered ad nauseum by LT?
Yesterday a driver from luwingu district hospital after receiving news that government through the ministry of health had procured ambulances to be distributed to all district hospitals he started driving the land cruiser carelessly and overturned a few kilometers away from zambia state prison.
Iwe ka doctor who is using mobile hospital, twalifikene during our campaigns fyachachabe
Who payed for them Zambia or again the outside world?