THE Swedish government did not donate the 25 ambulances, it was the Ministry of Health that bought the ambulances at a total cost of US$52,550 using the United Nations system and Swedish money.
Health Minister Dr. Chilufya said the ambulances were bought using the Swedish grant donated to the ministry some time back contrary to the perception that the ambulances were bought by the Swedish government.
He said the grant was donated to the ministry to reduce maternal mortality in Zambia and that the money was allocated for different projects such as training, buying of ambulances and motorbikes.
“We do not mean to downplay the grant from the Swedish government but it must be made clear that it is the ministry that bought the ambulances, the Swedish government gave money to the ministry of health through a project, we procured ourselves,” Dr. Chilufya said.
He said the ministry made a conscious choice to use the United Nations procurement district which has its own subsidies and time frame.
“We made a conscious choice to use the United Nations procurement district which has its own subsidies, its own queues, and its own timeframe. The vehicles will only be used for reproductive health services, just to transport pregnant women,” he said.
Dr. Chilufya questioned why some people had started comparing the 25 ambulances with the 50 ambulances which government had bought at the cost of $250, 000 each when the ambulances are totally different.
He says the 25 ambulances are Toyota and will only be used for reproductive purposes while the 50 ambulances will be used for any emergency and mobile services.
“The other procurement was for emergency and mobile services. The facility had adequate height for people to operate from with life serving equipment.
“You can’t compare the two because they are far apart,” Dr. Chilufya explained.
He said the emergency and mobile ambulances had sophisticated facilities.
Dr. Chilufya said the model of the current ambulances was a Toyota while the previous procurement is a Mercedes Benz.
“We have made it clear that the 50 ambulances are not Toyota land cruiser, it is BENZ, we have also made it clear that there are intermediate life support systems there while the 25 ambulances are just ordinary vans with a bed put in there for the purpose of reducing maternal mortality,” he said.
Dr. Chilufya said it was the Ministry of Health that paid for the for the 25 ambulances.
Recently, it was reported that the Swedish government had donated 25 ambulances to the Ministry of the Health to strengthen health reforms in Zambia.
Who said that when you tell a lie once, you have to do it again to cover the other lie. That person was right.
That means more money, the change and the rest, in PF pockets!
So bwana… can you explain this magic with a Venn Diagram.
$288,000 in one circle and $52,550 in the other.
The issue here is to explain the intersection… where is 50 x 230,000 gone??? Which works out to be $11.5 million.
The above Venn diagram won’t work out until you bring in the Financial intelligence circle which explains an increase in huge amounts of bank deposits by ministers.
Only a FOOL would refuse to believe this noble statement.
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So there are two types of Ambulances in MoH? Those for $288,000 and the $52,000 ones.
We hear the ones for $288,000 have a custom made doctor inside. And you don’t call the ambulance, it calls you. It can can also fly over obstacles like in heavy traffic and narrow streets in shanties….
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How come you don’t yap when Govt buys you ARVs.
Anyways, Happy Chrismas.
@Mushota sometimes just learn to keep our trap shut! You will disrespected less!
Chongoni fi upend. For you it’s just to oppose even without reading the explanation.
Bapompwe imwe!
$52000 is still expensive, is that including shipping? Sweden should have sold/donated volvos.
There is a Nigerian company making high quality, heavy African vehicles for such services like reproduction.
We don’t just know spare parts yet.
” 25 ambulances at a total cost of US$52,550 ” ??????????????????
These must be TOYOTA WHEELBARROWS! – At 2,102 per ‘ambulance’, just tell me where I can buy one for my own use!
That is what happens when lies become your lotion, you can even lie that your mother is your father, how and where on earth can 25 Ambulances cost $52,500? This is just an example of what will be happening in court when that time comes. We shall see.
These foooools borrow too much they think its their money…really laughable!!
Hon Minister please learn to delegate some of those donkey explanations. I thought you had a spokesperson.
These PF crookes are not even good liars at all.
PF humour at its best – more money in their pockets!
What’s wrong with us Zambians spending millions of dollars buying all these vehicles…why not turn Kabwe ZRL Coach-works into a vehicle assembly plant for Ambulances!!
There will be no stealing chances if they did that….
Used to be the biggest and well equipped locomotive engineering workshops south of the Sahara. It’s a shame the workshop is under utilised.
Dr chilufya is lying now…..an ambulance is an ambulance , stop trying to sell your 280k “Benze” as a operating theatre…..you have just been caught out stealing…..the Toyota landcrusers can do the same job and are cheaper to maintain with proven capabilities in Zambia.
i think you are so dull,ambulances are different……..ordinary ambulances intermittent ambulances and ITLS ambulances carry and have different features, for example Advanced life support you can do all that is there to serve a life such as operate a patient.
Inquire before you write….yes there might be such as corruption.
You are the same koswe rats appluding
Ati ni ” benze”
India , Pakistan use HiAceas ambulances ,and so do most developing and semi developed countries , those in the the USA are massive and can have operating facilities.
The ones in UK and most of Europe have life support marchines but not operating facilities……
So you are so du.ll you think those “Benze” will have a doctor on board to carry out operations ????
@Micky , I think you are Dr Chilufya
yes boss, sometimes its good to let the sleeping dogs lie. Whats the difference. Sweden gave you the money to buy ambulances. Am sure they gave specs as well. Its a wife saying she buys all the relish at home, using the husband’s pay. who pays food in the home???????????? baba. It’s honourable to keep quiet. least we forget your hardwork.
He thinks we don’t know how donor funding works…he thinks the Swedes would have sanctioned their taxpayer’s funds being used to procure overpriced vehicles!!
So a basic ambulance costs you $52,000 but you go and top up a whooping $236,000 for ‘life support equipment”!! Were you looking for an ambulance or the so called life support equipment? I guess now you should itemize the equipment you bought because the debate on the price of a basic ambulance is settled.
thts a SPACIO. ambulancee has medica fixtures. its a mobile hospital.
a lamborghini cost about 240k USD. Simple car.
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Your name says it all……so are going to have doctors onboard ready to operate with those “Benz”
And why the Benz vehicles when even a kid can tell you in Zambia it is very difficult and costly to maintain a Benz for our type of terrain and roads. Since the cost of the equipment on board far exceeds the cost of the vehicle, is the equipment transferable into a land rover when the Benz parks up?
@ WhattheF – my man. You and I and everyone in here try to arrive at these guys decisions using reason.
The guys involved in these deals do not care or use reason to arrive at their decisions, hence, one 1982 fire truck costing $1 million. Mobile hospitals, $288, 000 each for ambulances, $1 million per kilometre road… etc etc
There’s a mismatch in our arguments to theirs. Theirs is to do the unreasonable and back it up with more of unreasonableness.
Ours is reason on trying to explain the government’s unreasonableness…
which they do agree with us but have to maintain the unreasonableness.
Basically we are chasing the wind. That’s why we say we need help from the opposition, but the largest opposition is weak. ECL is being helped by HH by virtue of him being at the helm…
Don’t — of UPND… but alas, our brothers from the other side are so delusional.
2 months on, we r still awaiting revelations about Amos Chanda, the Presidentts secretary for press..
Read diggers news. It is all there in black and white.
Only a stupi.d. African who’s country suffers chronic cholera and is currently seeking IMF help would spend 280k on an ambulance……..
Even showing off that it is a ” Benze”
Darn theives…..
…How I hate the so called leaders who think they are presiding over f00lish citizens….can come up with any s1lly explanation and the masses will just nod their heads….
The problem is…the ministers have found a certain weakness in their boss and manipulate him like barbeque….I miss Mwanawasa…he never used to entertain crookedness of his subordinates..
Look at how Chilufya is using the president over HIV saga….and ECL cannot see beyond what he is told/instructed to pronounce….very sickening
no matter how much these bitter souls insult, we wont stop loving ecl.
u5 runs a biggest tribal movement in Africa with a tribal agenda
You are just thieves imwe bakoswe mumpoto
Semantics. The Swedish govt gave us a grant and then we bought the ambulances. Its not them who bought these things you know.
Only a politician would want to clarify this
So now who is fooling who? The pf think they will get away with this broad daylight robbery..
Bakabolala balipama chachine! Even when you catch a thief with TV in hands, he or she will deny the crime.
Very sad for doctors to steal from the sick and dying. What happened to the Oath of Doing no harm?
I have never seen such a fooolish government. It’s not the Swedish government that bought the ambulances though we used their money. Hahahaha. Niba KOSWE MUMPOTO for sure.
Lusaka Times
Sweden donates 25 Ambulances to the Ministry of Health
December 22, 2017
Swedish Ambassodor to Zambia, His Excellency Mr Henrik Cederin has stated that 2 years ago, Sweden and Zambia entered into a new agreement for a program to support productive Maternal new born Child, adolescent health and nutrition with focus on services provided in Eastern and Southern Provinces of Zambia, in order to improve the health of Zambian’s by strengthening health systems to deliver quality services.
The Ambassador was speaking yesterday morning at Ministry of Health when Minister of Health Hon. Dr Chitalu Chilufya received a donation of 25 Ambulances from the Swedish Government on behalf of his Ministry.
“Sweden had already been a close partner to your government , we pulled…