MMD national secretary Katele Kalumba has been evacuated to India for specialised medical examination.
Ministry of Health permanent secretary Velepi Mtonga confirmed this in an interview in Lusaka yesterday.
Dr Mtonga said Dr Kalumba was flown to India last Friday for specialised examination of his heart condition.
She said Dr Kalumba was accompanied by his wife, Lumba.
Before he was flown to India, Dr Kalumba was discharged from the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) because of lack of equipment to examine his heart problem.
“He was flown to India last week for further investigations because we do not have equipment which can examine his heart complication,” Dr Mtonga said.
And Dr Mtonga said she is yet to receive a report on the condition of Minister of Energy and Water Development Kenneth Konga.
Mr Konga was also flown to India and was expected to undergo an operation.
“As you may be aware, there is that time difference between India and Zambia and so I’m yet to get a feedback on the condition of the minister,” Dr Mtonga said.
And when asked whether Government has changed the policy with regard to the countries where Government officials are evacuated for treatment, Dr Mtonga answered in the negative.
She said market forces determine which country a Zambian is evacuated to for specialised treatment.
Most of Zambia’s patients are evacuated to South Africa for specialised treatment.
[Zambia Daily Mail]
ninshi kanshi uku lwala so? Fis
If we had to count how many people have been flown out of the country in each year for special treatment , i think govt can manage to buy the required enquipments.
Reviews will be expensive.
Yaba! You would think that evacuating the chaps to india is solving the problem! Just creating huge cargo bills later. And yet we have mobile clinics! What was the whole point then? Next!
“And when asked whether Government has changed the policy with regard to the countries where Government officials are evacuated for treatment, Dr Mtonga answered in the negative.”
My question: Is Katele Kalumba a government official?
Well what I can we say, hope he comes back home well. No.5 Good question????
Katele bewitched the late Teta. So the Kaondes with their tuyeebela have retaliated by striking Katele. He is also not surviving. It is utulumba from Chienge Puta Vs tueebelas from Kasempa at play. Let us watch!!!!!!!!!!
ministers are no longer evacuated to SA cause the SA government doesn’t want them there. its a way of tell them to get their shit together and improve the health sector!!!!!
No. 5. Its the party and its Govt PIG at work.
Just the price of one of those mercedes Benz cars can buy all the necessary equipment but alas, Kanitundila wants to kulimonesha ta! When it’s his heart giving up, he better have the energy to be flown to India before kicking the bucket otherwise kwamana pe!
There goes double, the tax payers money to bring back coffins from india. I would suggest they follow indian customs and burn bodies there. That would save us some maney, ka!
This s.i.lly d.ull gonvt is spending colosal sum of money on useles limo while failling to buy medical equipment . WHAT A GONVT?
Corruption eyalenga people are complaining kuti mwaleko kulwala?
When shall the ordinary Zambians access such fast track treatment?
They should have evacuated him to Chibambo Mission hospital in Katanga nearer to his powerful sangoma who gave him umuti wa disappearance. It’s only him who can give him a new heart, umuti wa Kolwe the babtist.
What is so difficult about buying medical equipment? Govts would rather buy expensives cars to ride in than investing in health systems for all
The in-fighting in the corrupt MMD is so fierce now and has reached dangerous proportions resulting in all these mysterious illnesses. Just look at these boxing bouts going on amongst top MMD leadership.
RB vs Magande
RB vs Mpombo
RB vs Kavindele
RB vs Namakando
RB vs Namulambe
RB vs Madyenkuku
Mabenga vs Namakando
Mulongoti vs Shikapwasha
Kunda vs Sondashi
VJ vs Kalumba
Desai vs Kaande
The referee in all this is Chiluba, the master dribbler and the time-keeper is Munkombwe, the chief bootlicker.
God help us that we may learn to priotise, our cumulative bill for flying out people for treatment is tripple the cost of required medical equipment! Is Katele a govt official?
If Zambia was a meeting the main items of the agenda would be the people like Shikapwasha, Katele, Teta, Mulongoti and other politicains. The rest of us Zambians would be Any Other Business. Just fix our health system and stop the stealing then there will be no need for evacuations.
Were is that laptop of his?
#5 That was my sentiment too. Looks like India has become the new South Africa….
As much as we appriciate our Leaders to be entittled to specialized treatment it is also very cardinal to think about the millions of our citizens who can not afford medical attention from Kanyama Compound, Missi, Chainda, Wusakile, but a few to mention. The huge sums of money spent on very few individuals can have great impact on our on Health Institutions if Strategic plans were skillfully made and implemented. To my dissapointment the Government finds it fit for few indiviuals to enjoy their righ to health care while the millions of our citizens are acustomed to poor medical services provided by semi skilled personel as most of the skilled ones have emigrated for greener pastures……shame!!
Yes where is his frog and the laptop its high tme he used his powerful magic otherwise ni laila, if anything he is not a government official maybe in chiyengi withhis team of witchdoctors and the movement for mad dogs. l hope shika as well be flown soon so ahould Mulongoti and all those living a the expensi of the taxpayers money good day to you all bloggers
These political i.d.i.o.t.s spend so much money on evacuations such that if they had carried a postmotein, findout from doctors at UHT what there lacking buy that equipment and put it at UHT will realise that it wont even equal the cost of the flights etc. For a poor Zambia with no money for evacuation will mean that will be in hospital waiting to answer Lord’s call. It’s time we removed them from office.
They have now abandoned south africa ever since Teta was refferd back to UTH.
You dont mess up with Gods innocent souls and get away with it. Ukulila amsuku pamutwe wa balanda no no no. God will fight for the opressed. The innocent will can back home as passangers but the guilt it will be cargo.
UTH so that they die like every one else
I have heard this kinda story before…anyway lets just wait and see..
Why ba Katele just after disagreing with the chief wip VJ on the un authorised postmoterm at Andrews motel? But pa Zambia sometimes i develope a cold when i hear these issues. Why everytime there is some disagreements others fall sick. Jehovah the true God please help us.
last time i heard , he was in “stble condition” last time they said the same about teta
#5 Spot on. Katele is an MMD official not Govt. Is the MMD paying for this trip to India.
Does Govt have a plan to equip Zambian hospitals with whatever is needed so we dont continue sending patients abroad? I hope they do. You cant always be flying patients to other countries.
What do the opposition parties and MPs say about all these. The opposition is supposed to keep checks and balances on the incumbent govt. That’s their role – Sata, HH, Nawakwi etc. Otherwise they are good for nothing.
well wishes to kalumba
I hope its not tax payers money that is being used to take one person to India while our own clinics and indeed our major hospitals have no medicines and very poor medical facilities.This Goverment has really no feelings for its people.Things must change and it must be now
Zambia has really taken the word “Mobility” to a whole new level! The clinics are mobile, The President is mobile, and now even katele and Konga are Mobile.
This non-caring government is very wasteful. The money being spent on evacuating those chaps including the allowances they are paid could be used to buy all the best medical equipmement the country needs to counter several complicated medical problems. But alas! it is now a way of earning a living on the part of the people involved in arranging the trips. Please understand me; I really have nothing agaist helping the sick but I do have serious problems understanding why the government has turned our hospitals into death centres where one goes to wait for his turn to pass on. Why the heck can’t the government put up better and decent medical facilities to help us the poor ones?. When is Zambia going to have decent politicians whom the people will be proud of?.
imagine this , katele away on medical leave … konga too , imagune the chaos mulongoti wil cause
Why not seek specialised treatment in Chiyengi??
A few issues. I have no objections to life being saved. But how many Zambians have access to this “overseas treatment”? Who is paying the bill? Why don’t we have the equipment you’re talking about, when Chiluba has millions of our dollars stashed away somewhere? When are we going to have self-pride? Isn’t the hard currency we’re externalizing for the chosen few’s hospitalization enough to build us a hospital? Lastly, is this the Dr. Mtonga that has always been there as PS, amidst scandals? Shame on us!!! This is no laughing matter, fools!
#37 He was once an expert but needs to go for retraining in African ancestry medicine.
Katele has been evacuated to India in his capacity as MP.
Many of you have solicited a comment from me on the issue of The Laptop. Well, I used to suspect that Tete had taken the laptop with him, hence leaving Tele without any ammunition. But no, I hear Tele is still well equipped. It’s actually the laptop that has made it possible, against all odds, as a non-government person, for him to go to India so that he can secure more laptops, since the Indians are known for having “it” – laptop technology and all. So, watch out, Namakando. When Tele comes back…
Now, you ask, why are they ALL falling ill, these MMD goons? Come on, dawg, because they’re politically and morally S-I-C-K!
Bring medical equipment to Zambia to benefit every citizen. And those gvt officers don’t they have health insurance to cover their medical expenses like late Mazoka use to?? Where is their earnings going as they get free transport free flights etc… TO INDIA just to be treated by traditional healers and strengthen his charms. laptop etc…. He could see what was happening in his office where hiding in the bush in Chiyengi… Gvt paid him despite of being off duty on his own mission. WHERE IS ZAMBIA HEADING???
This just pisses me off! I hope he comes back ku cargo!
Some one has been cheating people that there is a very good Dr in India, but to my knowledge all the people I know who have gone there have died within a week of their return to Zambia. I am not wishing KK ill, but am not comfortable with the choice of treatment.
So this is the new twist in our dependence on health services on other countries? India. We do not know what is being done to address this issue. Since this govt is not interested in improving health services to what they were lets say in the 80s, I would suggest that these politicians and government officials should buy medical insurance from these countries which will include evacuation costs. This money must be paid from the salaries of these fat cats. It is criminal for the people responsible for the poor health standards to evacuate themselves when they have a headache. A lot of Zambians are dying from curable diseases and not receiving medical attention and yet these boozos are treating themselves from diseases acquired after misbehaving at Parliament Hotel (A.K.A Slaughter House).
Why can’t the govt cut plane ticket costs, hotel bills etc for the “VIP’s” by buying equipment we need???? Honestly we the people need to push the govt, coz ordinary citizens cant afford to fly out. Govt has to invest in health sector ASAP.
God is punishing all corrupt MMD CADRES, MMD is cursed, they need to refocus and put the interest of the masses 1st., otherwise they will all perish.. I have lost too many loved ones… and 20 yrs later the health crisis….situation is not getting any better, Lord hear our cry, have mercy on the poor citizens.