SAMSUNG Medical Centre of South Korea on Wednesday donated an ultrasound machine to Kafue District Hospital aimed at benefiting the vulnerable community and enhance the health delivery in the area.
The hospital also launched the medical camps in Chongwe and Kafue districts under Samsung employee volunteer programme organised and sponsored by Samsung Corporation, Electrical engineering and the Korean National Commission for UNESCO and Urban Self Help (PUSH).
Samsung Electronics Limited Company has also set up a community business centre and computer training for youths in Soloboni community to improve its livelihood and has donated 20 computers to the centre.
Head of the medical team, Chung Sungsoo said during the launch at Nangongwe Urban Health Centre in Kafue that the medical camps would provide basic medical screening and treatment to the communities and improve hygiene to prevent treatable diseases.
Mr Sungsoo said the medical camps would be conducted by a group of medical doctors, nurses and pharmacists that would provide the general screening and ultrasound at the two medical camps.
He said more than 700 people were screened in Chongwe and about 600 would be screened at Nangogwe urban health centre.
“We have about seven Korean doctors and 40 nurses as well as local medical officers and some doctors from South Africa, bringing the number to 67 who will be conducting general screening at the medical camps,” he said.
Receiving the donation, Minister of Health, Kapembwa Simbao said the ultrasound machine would enhance the community knowledge on health.
Mr Simbao said provision of quality health was an enormous task that should not be left to the Government alone but required concerted efforts from various stakeholders.
In a speech read for him by Deputy Minister Christopher Kalila, Mr Simbao said the Government was pleased by the noble gesture of endeavouring to promote health and technical skills among the vulnerable community.
He said the Government was aware that the most vulnerable people were mostly in the rural areas and in need of designed health systems closer to their households.
Mr Simbao said the mobile health services which the Government had procured was one of the strategies to reach people in the rural areas and had built health posts to bring healthcare closer to the people.
He commended Korean medics, Samsung and Push for the good community initiative and urged Samsung to consider opening up an electronic manufacturing industry in Zambia.
And Nangogwe Clinic acting sister-in-charge, Stella Bowa praised Samsung for the equipment and medical doctors, nurses and pharmacists for their assistance.
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