A visiting Norwegian Nurses Organisation says Mobile Clinics are the best alternative in the delivering of quality health care services to remote areas.
Organisatsion Vice president JAN ERIK says Mobile Clinics have proved to be an efficient way of providing health services to people that are far away from the traditional health facilities.
Mr ERIK says he would recommend to the Zambian government to go ahead with the purchase of more Mobile Clinics if his organisatsion was approached for advice.
He said this during a press briefing organised by the Zambia Union of Nurses Organisatsion in Livingstone saturday.
And Zambia National Union of Nurses Organisation president THOM YUNG’ANA said the concept of Mobile Clinics is NOT a bad idea.
Mr YUNG’ANA however, observed that various organisations and individuals have raised concerns over the Mobile Clinics because of issues of sustainability.
ZNBC
The whole concept of mobile clinic is outdated, we should start planning of developmental projects in health that will last test of time. Yung’ana, I am disappointed with your statement because it seems you are just following what your Norwegian visitor has said. You are a Zambian and are you sure mobile clinics are the best for your own people? In the same way Hikaumba has over stayed please Thom Dauti Yung’ana do not stand again once this term has finished. You are just there to enrich yourselves while your nurses are suffering.
Mobile clinics are best if government paid for them. You can not go around the world borrowing money to bring in mobile clinics as though this was an animal farm. Let us learn to be serious for once. Having borrowed $59mm just to finance FAKE CHINESE Mobile Clincs, this was a very wrong calculated move by HUMPTY DUMPTY.
JAN ERIK is crazy indeed and THOM YUNGA’NA is a big COW. Was this chap taken round the country to visit our rural areas ? Does this Thom chap know places like Nguvu, Chinyamalitapi, Sefu, Dipalata, Dikolonga, Shangombo, Kaungamashi just to mention a few ? We need to improve our road infrastructure down to District and Village level so that we have complete Road Network around the country before we think of this facility. This is just a SCANDAL indeed…..
This nurse should be shown how bad our roads are for her to understand what we ve been talking about. Those things would go there once and that would be the end. Why cant we build modern and permanet hospitals in rural areas that we know would last for even hundred years using the same money than buying a mobile thing that we know would last for a month?
Basically that is a vehicle with 5 yrs life span.
I do not see the economic sense of buying very expensive equipment to service few people in a remote area. The money is better spent where it will make most impact. Lets say, improving the services in the current hospitals. Those few people in remote areas can then be transported to the improved facilities. Politically I can see why these hospitals are attractive because they will win votes. But they are not the best way of utilizing the few resources available. Looking at it from a human resource frame, is it not better for a doctor to treat as many people in a day in a real hospital compared than having to drive them around which is a waste of time and only to treat 2 people a day. When is this govt going to start working for people and stop campaigning?
As long as the so called mobile clinics will have wheels and driven by drivers employed by thier relatives or MMD boses in these Zambian rural roads………. I don’t see these clinics to last even a year or two. If we have been failing to reach these areas with 4×4 vans, what will make the truck to get to these areas.
One to come up with such an idea should think of the state of the roads in which the trucks will be passing as purchasing them before a proper analysis will make the whole project a comedy of the health system of zambia.
Rubbish! For starter this shit government has failed to keep the hospital functioning properly, then they go and borrow millions of dollars to buy substandard mobile hospitals. This is all rhetoric, government should have not done instead they should have tried to maintain the already existing hospitals and clinics they are failing to run. How are they can going to manage these mobile clinics when they have failed to even buy normal beds and beddings in the current hospital. Besides the roads in the villages are really terrible hence most villagers cannot even afford to get to the general hospitals. So buying these mobile clinics was merely a sheer waste of resources. No proper planning on the part of government!