Tag: ambulances

Ministry of Health To Set Up Ambulance Services Directorate

Michael Gwarisa

THE Ministry of Health and Child Care (MoHCC), has hinted on plans to establish a directory of ambulances that will see services being expanded to other hard to reach jurisdictions in a bid to strengthen the health sector’s emergency response capacity By Michael Gwarisa Briefing delegates during a donation of eight ambulances from the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Health and Childcare Deputy Minister, Dr John Mangwiro said the directory will encompass both air and surface ambulance services. My ministry is in the process of restructuring and subsequently, there is…

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Govt Struggles To Procure Ambulances For Hospitals

Healthtimes

HEALTH and Child Care Ministry is yet to procure the 100 state of the art ambulances for public health institutions due to unavailability of foreign currency in the country. By Kudakwashe Pembere This emerged during a Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) pre-budget meeting held in Harare on Thursday. Health Ministry’s chief accountant expenditure Mrs Tennis Lynette said they had planned to buy the ambulances with the money promised by the Finance Ministry in its supplementary budget presentation. We have not yet received the money as yet although the treasury…

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Old Mutual Launches Emergency Rescue Package

Michael Gwarisa

OLD Mutual Zimbabwe has partnered Ace Air & Ambulance in launching an Emergency Rescue package which will offer emergency air & road medical rescue package to Old Mutual existing and new customers with effect from 1 Sept 2019. By Michael Gwarisa The Old Mutual Emergency Rescue Package comes with affordable rates & offers provision of a 24 hr emergency medical rescue; road & air ambulance, supported by helicopter services; provision of a medical doctor on board who attends to patients during transportation. James Halstead the Managing Director for Ace Air…

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Only 134 Ambulances Functioning Countrywide

Michael Gwarisa

ZIMBABWE only has 134 operational ambulances out of 282 vehicles, a situation which has affected the sector’s capacity to respond to health emergencies. This was revealed by Auditor General, Mildred Chiri during her submission of the Report on the Audit of Appropriation Accounts, Finance and Revenue Statements and Fund Accounts of Zimbabwe for the year ended December 31, 2018. “In order for the Ministry to promote public health it requires ambulances to provide transport to patients. My examination of the asset register for the Ministry however, revealed a constraint in…

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