Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Rayford Mbulu urges foreign missions to attract Investment in the Health Sector
GOVERNMENT has urged its Foreign Mission in South Africa to focus on attracting private health sector investment into Zambia in order to supplement the Government’s efforts.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Deputy Rayford Mbulu says the Zambian Mission in South Africa should not just focus on attracting the traditional commerce type of investment but should cast its net wider and approach private health facilities such as Morningside Clinic and invite them to invest in Zambia.
Mr. Mbulu was speaking yesterday soon after visiting Lusaka businessman, Edgar Ngoma, who is admitted to Morningside Clinic in Johannesburg.
He cited the South African mix of insurance companies and medical schemes working in collaboration with health facilities, as something that the Mission should study and help drive in its implementation in Zambia.
He says as the Mission approaches the medical institutions to entice them to come and invest in Zambia, there is also need to work out a model which will make it possible for people to afford the services.
Mr. Mbulu, who was accompanied by Zambia’s High Commissioner- Designate to South Africa, Emmanuel Mwamba, pointed out that with its central location, Zambia has the potential of becoming the hub of medical service provision for the region.
In a media release obtained from First Secretary for Press in Pretoria, Nicky Shabolyo, Mr. Mbulu, who was on his way to Croatia on Government duty, took time off before his connection flight to visit Mr. Ngoma
And Mr. Ngoma pledged to champion the drive of attracting South African private health sector investment into Zambia after he leaves hospital.
Mr. Ngoma who was full of praise for the clinic staff said Morningside has the state-of-the-art facilities coupled with professional personnel which made it possible for patients to recuperate well.
“We should all as citizens within our individual or collective efforts, try to help our government by lobbying private health facilities, such as this one, to come into Zambia. I agree with the honourable minister, Government’s efforts need to be supplemented,” he said.
Mr. Ngoma, who was evacuated to Morningside Clinic by the Zambian Government on Thursday, said he was feeling much better and was waiting for more procedures to be done on him.
He thanked Government for facilitating his evacuation.
And Mr. Mbulu said he was happy to hear that Mr. Ngoma was recuperating well.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Deputy Rayford Mbulu says the Zambian Mission in South Africa should not just focus on attracting the traditional commerce type of investment but should cast its net wider and approach private health facilities such as Morningside Clinic and invite them to invest in Zambia.
Mr. Mbulu was speaking yesterday soon after visiting Lusaka businessman, Edgar Ngoma, who is admitted to Morningside Clinic in Johannesburg.
He cited the South African mix of insurance companies and medical schemes working in collaboration with health facilities, as something that the Mission should study and help drive in its implementation in Zambia.
He says as the Mission approaches the medical institutions to entice them to come and invest in Zambia, there is also need to work out a model which will make it possible for people to afford the services.
Mr. Mbulu, who was accompanied by Zambia’s High Commissioner- Designate to South Africa, Emmanuel Mwamba, pointed out that with its central location, Zambia has the potential of becoming the hub of medical service provision for the region.
In a media release obtained from First Secretary for Press in Pretoria, Nicky Shabolyo, Mr. Mbulu, who was on his way to Croatia on Government duty, took time off before his connection flight to visit Mr. Ngoma
And Mr. Ngoma pledged to champion the drive of attracting South African private health sector investment into Zambia after he leaves hospital.
Mr. Ngoma who was full of praise for the clinic staff said Morningside has the state-of-the-art facilities coupled with professional personnel which made it possible for patients to recuperate well.
“We should all as citizens within our individual or collective efforts, try to help our government by lobbying private health facilities, such as this one, to come into Zambia. I agree with the honourable minister, Government’s efforts need to be supplemented,” he said.
Mr. Ngoma, who was evacuated to Morningside Clinic by the Zambian Government on Thursday, said he was feeling much better and was waiting for more procedures to be done on him.
He thanked Government for facilitating his evacuation.
And Mr. Mbulu said he was happy to hear that Mr. Ngoma was recuperating well.