Copperbelt Energy Corporation (CEC) has donated hospital beds and Mattresses worth K233 thousand Kwacha Kitwe Teaching Hospital to cater for the increasing need for beds due to the rise in Covid-19 cases.
CEC Managing Director Owen Silavwe said the organisation remains committed to participating in the advancement of quality health care provision.
Mr. Silavwe said his organisation has seen the devastation the virus brings on the families as most people succumb to Covid-19 and in some cases leaving children and dependents behind.
“In response to the need for additional hospital beds, I am glad to state that CEC is today pleased to be handing over 20 hospital beds, I trust these beds will help cushion the pressure that has been placed on the Kitwe Teaching Hospital as the number of patients requiring hospitalization has escalated due to the COVID third wave,” He said.
And speaking when he received the items at Kitwe Teaching Hospital today, Kitwe District Commissioner Chileshe Bweupe commended CEC for demonstrating practical social investment and corporate citizenship by proving that responding to the present needs of communities is what people appreciate and remember.
Mr. Bweupe noted that the comfort of patients is of key importance in patients’ management.
“It will be amiss of me if I fail to commend not only the donation but also the speed of the response, in each of the waves that the country has experienced, CEC has been counted among the partners of the people right from the testing kits and reagents to personal protective equipment and sanitary products,” the District Commissioner stated.
He further stated that government’s desire is that every Zambian is catered for in the various prevention and disease response programmes.
Mr. Bweupe however, noted that government alone cannot meet all the health needs of the people hence the need for the participation of different stakeholders and partners.
He noted that covid-19 was an emergence because it is not only deadly but has also affected people suffering from other illnesses by drawing attention and resources from them in trying to combat it thus threatening public health at many levels.
The DC urged the media to continue sensitizing the community on Covid and appealing to the corporate world to support government with resources for fighting the pandemic.
And Kitwe Teaching Hospital Medical Superintendent, Abidan Chansa thanked CEC for the donation stating that the donated beds and mattresses will go a long way in improving the management of patients.
“The donated items will go a long way in enhancing the comfortability of the patients and provision of a better environment for patients,” he said.
He also thanked the Kitwe District Commissioner for mobilizing the business community towards supporting the hospital.
Kitwe Teaching Hospital has continued to record an increase in covid-19 cases.
The hospital wards are currents full due to COVID-19 admissions.
The best example of the horrible PF government failing its own population. No money to get the most basic materials in the hospital, but handing out wads of cash to criminal PF cadres! PF: Lying about everything, not delivering anything!
Thank you so much for your kindness. God will continue to bless you unlike that self proclaimed richest man in Zambia,HH. Who since being forced to donate cheap soap last year has not done a single thing to help unfortunate people. Yet he lies to his brain washed followers that he cares for this country
What have donated?
SOME PF BLOGGERS CANT DONATE AS THEY DONT HAVE THE MONEY
HOWEVER I HAVE ASKED MY 700 WORKERS TO GIVE K10 EACH TO ASSIST THE NEEDY
SO YOU SEE ITS EASY TO TALK NONSENSE ON HERE
This disease is repeating what HIV AIDS did in the 1980s. It took away so many of Zambia’s learned men and women, the bread winners and the higher contributors to the economy. With AIDS at least, the path to death was long and the time was used by the survivors to prepare. This is not going to happen this time. Death is quick and so many people will be caught unprepared. There will be debts unpaid. The thing is that even people who are masking, sanitising and keeping social distancing will slip up once in a while and that one time may prove fatal. The country MUST come together and solve this problem once and for all. The Medicines Regulatory Authority MUST licence Ivermectin, proxalutamide, povidon-iodine and many others for use against this disease. The vaccines are too few.