Poland donates 22 tonnes medical supplies to Zambia

ABOUT 22, 000 kilogrammes of assorted medical supplies have been donated by Poland to Zambia.

The humanitarian assistance destined for health facilities in different parts of Zambia and expected to target an estimated 180,000 people is Poland’s largest in 50 years.

Polish Minister of Humanitarian Aid, Michal Wos, made the announcement at a ceremony held at the port of Gdynia attended by Zambia’s Ambassador to Germany Anthony Mukwita

who is also Ambassador to Poland on a non-residential basis.

Mr Wos told scores of invited guests that Zambia was a familiar country in Poland because of the many Polish missionaries who had lived and worked in the country for many years.

This is contained in a statement issued by First Secretary – press and public relations at the Zambian Embassy in Berlin, Kellys Kaunda,

“For us missionaries have been our greatest diplomats,” Mr Wos said.

Mr Wos said in the past,

his country had also been a recipient of humanitarian assistance and therefore understood the needs of others. He hoped that the assistance could in some way complement the efforts of the Zambian Government in relieving the burden of care.

In his remarks, Mr Mukwita expressed gratitude for the humanitarian assistance which he described as timely and a welcome addition to on gong efforts by the government to make modern health facilities accessible by all Zambians.

“Where there was no bed,

now there is going to be a bed and where one patient may not have been assisted because a particular medical equipment was not available now such a one shall be assisted,” Mr Mukwita said.

Polish missionaries have been in Zambia for many years working in different parts of Zambia as nurses and priests under the Roman Catholic Church.

One of their well-known works of charity is the Kasisi Orphanage located near the Kenneth Kaunda International Airport in Lusaka.