Friday, March 29, 2024

Masks and other protective material are not available to ordinary Zambians-Nevers Mumba

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New Hope MMD President Dr Nevers Mumba says it is unfortunate that masks and other protective material are not available to ordinary Zambians.

Dr Mumba said only the well to do people in society are protecting themselves with the majority poor Zambians failing to access the protective equipment.

“I went to a pharmacy to buy more masks for my family. I was shocked to find that masks that were costing K2 before the Corona Virus are now going for K20. This is unsustainable”, Dr Mumba said.

He said Government must find alternative means to make masks available to the poor in the compounds.

Dr Mumba also advised Zambians not to wait for government to tell them to stay home but impose self imposed lock down.

However, Dr Mumba has supported President Edgar Lungu for extending the stay at home, social distancing measures for at least another 14 days to ensure that we keep the country safe.

And Dr Mumba has commended the government and all hard working medical staff for their selfless service during this difficult time.

“We remain in prayer for all those who have tested positive so far and also stand in solidarity with those under official quarantine. We pray for their quick recovery”, he said.

21 COMMENTS

  1. Prices have been driven by demand and unfortunately we do not manufacture masks etc. The price in SA is actually high now even if they produce due to high demand Dr Nevers.

  2. African mentality,taking advantage of the situation. There is price elasticity, but we don’t need to exploit people.In Zambia,even protective equipment is status.No wonder they call us third world.Shame

  3. Who is to blame for that? These are the results of not having manufacturing industries in the country what are you as citizens doing to up lift the well bring of the country masks and protective clothing you the want the government to make i thought that those things that prople of Zambia can be manufactuting including you the writer this corona virus pandemic has caught most countries on the world with their pants down the whole world relied on China to supply them with with all their needs even simple goods which one can manufacture in his back yard you run to China this is a wake up call to leaders and citizens to producing goods in their own counties and forget about China to stop this blaming game we are all in this together both the leaders politicians and the citizens

  4. Any piece of clothing can do for a mask. Our women have headscuffs, those will work just fine. Follow the example of Moslem women.

    Let’s do what we can to survive

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  5. Mumba as a man of God who has made millions from poor man’s offering , is it not time you gave back something by donating the same goods you say are lacking ? Rather than continue to open that mouth of yours only to point out what is lacking. Do something.

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  6. That’s what’s wrong with Zambia. Our leaders can’t think!! Some bright guys in our markets are sewing face masks with cloth at K10 and K8 and they are washable. If leaders only believe such basic things have to be imported, how can the nation ever develop??? Asians are even donating masks to Europe!!! SHAMEFUL, NEVERS, WE NEED A NEW BREED OF POLITICIANS. ZAMBIA IS CURSED WITH THIS UNPROGRESSIVE LOT!!!

  7. Meanwhile President Nana Addo of Ghana has tasked 5 local companies to produce 3.6 million face masks and work is in progress. Read it on AfricaNews#NPP Projects.

  8. Dr Mumba you could have first bought a thousand masks from the money you store from poor people with you Zambia Shall be Saved before commenting. To the rest of the Zambians, do we see this as a business opportunity

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  9. No need to finger pointing for now,let’s work together for better Zambia. It’s good that you have observed that.

  10. @ I love Zambia
    My solution is to allow all people to access basic needs
    2. Remove this inherited opinion that only people with money mater in society
    3.People should know having money is an advantage and not a way to despise others
    4. Price i ncrease should be justified
    5.We don’t have to outsource or import everything, we should learn to make simple items

  11. Sharing and learning as we confront this pandemic.

    Inside Taiwan during COVID-19: How the country kept schools and businesses open throughout pandemic
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  12. My fellow Zambians, let us not complain for the sake of it. We have many sewing machines lying idle in homes, etc. Many of us have tailoring skills, it is time to put them to use. Make the face masks using the locally available chitenge materials. We should not wait for a foreigner to tell us what to do . We all like using the phrase “Prevention is better than cure”, let’s get busy producing the masks and save lives. I am sure we can do this instead of importing the finished product. One Zambia One Nation.

  13. Even in the UK on eBay simple black masks that cost 2 for 99p are now costing £5.50 for one…our Kenyan friends have started manufacturing face masks themselves they are churning out 30,000 day …but our Lazy Lungu is waiting for the sly Chinks to donate masks laced with the very virus instead of putting IDC to task.

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  14. Anything can be a mask, soft paper, cloth, leaves, lets make do with what we have. Do you expect this broke government to order masks. Reckless borrowing, meaning without planning and prudence has led us into where we are. Even importing power from SA something which was an emergency was a struggle. Can a normal country surely fail to raise 27 million dollars, this is money which individuals in most countries keep in their personal accounts. Even before covid 19 our ecomomy was in free fall, you must be extremely blind to continue clapping

  15. PF women are making masks, stop complaining, do something.
    Open those campaigning material boxes, cut all the T-shirts into masks.

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  16. There is gap in the market and I tell you our brothers and sisters are busy making masks.
    Doc go to Kamwala and have some made for your precuous instead of relying on Chinese masks. Zambianss have stepped up and are making these masks that you can actually wash in hot water iron and recycle.
    I actually had mine hand made so lets not complain.

  17. Mr Mumba it’s the same worldwide. No masks even in Covid hospital wards. Make own masks or as @Chalo Nkhanza suggests find local entrepreneurs making the.

    I’ve run out, so tomorrow, I will wear a full face Lion mask I bought at Halloween just as a joke to cheer people up! It covers good though…….. drastic.

  18. But Zambia is a very uncaring country for its Citizens. Zambia is a failed state. Zambian political leaders spend all their time from January to December pointing fingers at each and NOT working. The bossy attitude which Zambian leaders have is what has killed this nation. They don’t feel accountable. They can do anything they want any time without any remorse.
    As Zambians we have contributed into making these men and women in power such evil by even hero worshiping them and praising them unnecessarily.

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