One of India’s leading private hospitals, KIMS, has offered free air tickets to the underprivileged patients in Zambia to be treated in India once a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) is signed with government.
KIMS Hospital Director Bollineni Abhinay said the MOU should further lead to the establishment of a dialysis centre in Zambia.
He says KIMS has 10 hospitals in India totaling over 3,000 beds with separate units for bone marrow, heart and kidney transplants.
Dr.Abhinay says the hospital trains over 2,000 doctors every year and Zambian doctors can benefit from the training for further skills transfer.
He says the hospital has specialised skills in dialysis for patients suffering from acute and end stage kidney disease.
Dr. Abhinay said dialysis is also used as a bridge to kidney transplant for patients with end stage kidney disease.
This came to light when Zambia’s High Commissioner to India Judith Kapijimpanga toured KIMS Hospital in HYDERABAD, over 2,000 kilometres away from the Indian Capital New Delhi.
And Mrs.Kapijimpanga said former University Teaching Hospital Managing Director Dr. Clarence Chiluba’s appointment as Counselor Health at the Mission in India is commitment by Government to leverage on opportunities obtaining in the global health sector, India in particular, where most Zambians seek quality super-specialized health services.
Mrs. Kapijimpanga says Zambia has over TWO Hundred patients on chronic dialysis and about EIGHT Hundred acute kidney injury patients per year of which the figures are grossly underestimated as most patients are lost before they are referred to dialysis units.
Shesaid the Zambian Government has put a premium on health as a catalyst for economic development to ensure that investment in health and other sectors is supported.
The High Commissioner said Zambia’s health sector has made significant investment in infrastructure and equipment but requires capacity building.
Mrs. Kapijimpanga said the Mission is further looking for a serious investor who can build a multi super-specialty hospital to service both the country and sub SAHARAN Africa.
This is contained in a statement released by First Secretary Press and Tourism at the Zambian Mission in India Bangwe Naviley.
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