THE MMD says Deputy Minister of Lands Michael Mabenga has undergone a surgery to clear a blocked aorta, which affected blood flow to his right leg.
MMD vice-national chairperson Kabinga Pande said Mr Mabenga is admitted to Milpark Hospital in South Africa where he underwent surgery and is receiving treatment.
Mr Pande said in a statement made available in Lusaka yesterday the operation was successful, and that Mr Mabenga is expected to be discharged on Tuesday.
“The doctors are satisfied the operation was successful, and Mr Mabenga is making progress,” Mr Pande said.
He said Zambia’s High Commissioner to South Africa Bizwayo Nkunika confirmed after he visited Mr Mabenga in hospital that the deputy minister is able to make movements with his leg with less pain now.
The MMD has adopted Mr Mabenga as its parliamentary candidate for Mulobezi Constituency in Western Province.
[Zambia Daily Mail]
sounds like a guy had a stroke to me. Excellent job MMD for successfully keeping the evacuation under wraps until the guy had surgery.
Wish him quick recovery and will try and pay him a visit today, since I will be that area in the afternoon. I hope I will be allowed
why evacuated to RSA? don’t we have qualified surgeons in Zambia….This just shows that even the new Hospitals and clinic being constructed will just be white elephants..Politics of appeasement!!
Mr CDF can go to hell for all i care,the Community Development Funds he stole could have saved more lives in his constituency,could have gone a long way to alleviate poverty,and the f00lish part of it all is that the same people from whom he stole will vote for him again
I HOPE TEMANO YAKUMONA AMA BALLOT BOXES
It was during election period when Veteran politician also went to SA fir medical review . I smell a rat . Hope it was truely surgery. Get well soon so that we meet in the battle fieldin mulobezi
Where they not laughing at Sata? healthy and life are in Gods hands MMD and UPND should have been careful with there utterances when Sata didn’t attend Chilu’s funeral.
20 years of MMD and we still can’t treat our people. What nonsense of development is this, it’s no good putting up structures but can’t treat your people. Anyway get well soon
wait a second! i thought we had mobile clinics worth 53 mil dollars? why SA? what about the ordinary zedian who is paying taxes,will they b evacuated when they fall sick?
get well soon sir
How is Mr Mabenga going to campaign with a leg that has undergone operations? He should just pull out of the race and let other younger aspirants contest that sit.
It is shameful that this govt continues sending people to SA for treatment without providing health facilities locally. All those facilities such as MRIs, PET, radiation therapy can be provided locally if there is will. In addition SKILLS would be retained and more doctors would be trained, improving our economy. How can such madness continue for 2 decades without check? Health has become a privilege for the elite alone, when people are dying from childbirth or curable diseases. This is criminal! I have seen some of the hospitals these politicians go to like AWYP, Cape Town hospitals and Milpark. They are just ordinary buildings with the needed staff and equipment. Nothing that we can not do. They are also privately owned, a good indication that they were not costly to establish.
Indeed why didn’t the ***** go to UTH so they could amputate his flipping leg? Why RSA, are these the health developments they are talking about? I smell a rat too about this evacuation (at this point in time). We must watch these guys with the printing of ballot papers from a printing firm we do not know nothing about. It will be a disaster if Bwezani Lupiya wins; it will make the Malawi’s recent disturbance look like chid’s play…
why taking him to SA instead of taking mobile hospital to his house. question did we need improve hospital and train more doctors or mobile hospital mmd does not respect us power is in our hands once again in this election.
They fire our doctors and run down our local facilities. Next they go to SA to be treated by the same doctors they fired, leaving poor Zambians to fend for themselves. How come this ‘team of doctors’ only sends politicians and other officials instead of ordinary Zambians for treatment? This bunch of thugs we call leaders are screwing the taxpayers and citizens!
I wish him quick recovery.
RIP Mabenga
MABENGA HAS BEEN IN PUBLIC SERVICE TOO LONG. IT IS TIME HE THINKS OF HIS HEALTH AND FAMILY. LEAVE THAT SEAT TO A YOUNG PERSON AND RETIRE HAPPILY OLDMAN. ANYWAY LIKE ALL POLITICIANS, I DON’T EXCEPT HIM TO HEED MY ADVICE TILL IT IS TOO LATE.
Just what manner of diseased people do we have running this country? And yet we have a Clause barring sick people from seeking office, Zambia is a joke of a nation:
RB undergoes a minor operation in South Africa.Chief Justice evacuated to South Africa for treatment.Vice President George Kunda in Johannesburg, for treatment.
Mabenga undergoes operation in South Africa
Sata suffers stroke, evacuated to Milpark Clinic in South Africa
Zambian president Levy P. Mwanawasa suffers massive heart attack.
I thought the medical facilities were so developed under rupiah such that we no longer need people to go on medical/surgical tourism.
Such a procedure could have easily been done at UTH. I hope he paid out of his own pocket and not govt such as CDF
What has happened to the development projects by rupiah in the health sector?
Guys dont be so mean.
oh shut up!!!!!!!
#2, 7, 11, 12, 13, 14 & 18,
Your views are serious and they sum up how rotten the GRZ and it’s leaders are. I am not a surgeon but I am sure the operation which Mabenga underwent in SA is one of the simplest procedures in medical practice and it is therefore disgraceful that after nearly half a century of independence Zambia cannot provide such basic treatment. The leaders without shame continue to enjoy medical services outside the country at the expense of the over-exploited taxpayer while poor Zambians are neglected. It is very painful!
Unprecedented (Never seen before) developments in the Zambian Health Sector! its so confusing to think of it…[-(
#12,chumbu…you are nuts man!!
Declare the sit vacant, he is not coming soon, south africans are making money . Keep him till November.
Did we need to fly this guy to SA for an operation that could have been done at a local clinic in Mulobezi? This govt is a waste of time. I hope PF will improve the facilities in zambia to allow poor pipo access this medical operation. This is what happens when politician become greedy!!
Last year it was VJ who had an operation during elections, aba ba bantu careful with them rigging yaba mumilopa
First, they booked a plane on which Mabenga was flown. Secondly, they pay medical fees to South African(in Dollars),. Will these *****s learn to develop Zambia and save its hard earned cash?
There goes my PAYE! Damn!
spineless zambians… All we do is complain and run our mouths all day while our friends in other countries are taking to the streets!!!!! prosperity and Good governance has to be fought for… even if it means sheddin blood!! wake upppppppppppppppppppppppppppppppp.
According to my doctor at UTH, he says “the aorta is the largest single blood vessel in the body. It is approximately the diameter of your thumb. This vessel carries oxygen-rich blood from the left ventricle to the various parts of the body. The blood leaving the left ventricle exits through the aorta, the body’s main artery. The condition when a coronary artery becomes blocked causing damage to the Veins from the legs and lower torso feed into the inferior vena cava, blood collected in the right atrium to flow into the right ventricle”. He says he can even correct and operate this simple operation with his eyes closed and even on a mobile hospital! So much for the MMD Mobile party!
I am no surgeon, but this seems like a pretty simple procedure to me, which could have been performed at UTH or any other hospital in Zambia.
Are yah mat or lay year car year car.
He caught Sata’s Disease!
#28 MB,
Thank you very much for your posting and I hope more Zambians will take note of it. Zambia has been under the mercy of crooks and merciless leaders for too long and we are sick of it.
President Kaunda built the UTH complex and other infrastucture around the country. KK used to get admitted to the UTH and this made Zambians proud of the facility. After KK, crooks took over to destroy and undo all the good work and embarked on their patronage of SA medical centres without shame. They have got to be stopped, enough is enough!
Chilibwanji kansi? Leaving facilities in a middle income country for South Africa!!
Chris Barnard carried out a heart transplant in 1967 in Cape Town. It was the first time such an operation was performed in the world. 45 years later we can not unblock an artery! Hmmmmm.
For how long surely will the PAYE of many suffering Zambians continue subsidising Milpark Hospital for a select few? Each time I have to seek medical attention no matter how minor I have to put on hold everything else for the whole day! Milpark Hospital does not want us to gain benefit of the Chinese saying “Give a man a fish he will eat for a day and teach a man to fish he will have fish for the rest of his life”
Why do taxpayers pay for fooLs like him.WHY doesnt he go to a local hospital.This has to stop only in Zambia ,even the president has to be evacuated everytime he has a cold due to old age but still claims the country is doing Ok.If local hospials are not good for the ministers and Mps why should they be good for the poor citizens?it stinks of animal farm.Lets have equal access to health facilities.
Banda I thought Zambia had capable Doctors and surgeons? Why don’t you trust them to carry out procedures like that? It means the health service in Zambia is excrement, just like you Banda you’re S H I T.