PPP key in health delivery - Mubukwanu

GOVERNMENT has placed Public Private Partnership (PPP) as an important model in improving the livelihood of citizenry, says North-Western Province minister Nathaniel Mubukwanu.

Mr Mubukwanu noted that one such area of cooperation and partnership was in the provision of health care services to the people.

He stated that the outbreak of Covid-19 in the country had posed a direct threat to having a healthy people with the potential of negatively affecting productivity.

The minister was speaking in a speech read by Provincial Permanent Secretary Willies Mangimela during the handover of the Covid-19 medical supplies donated by Barrick Lumwana Mine in Kalumbila.

Mr Mubukwanu said Government envisioned a multi-sectoral Public-Private Partnership response as key to winning the war against the disease.

“As Government, we have attached great importance to the provision of health services to the people with the other stakeholders through partnerships,” he said.

He said the donation was a clear example and meaning of the PPP model.

The minister also said the province was screening over 3,000 individuals under port health per day at Kangwena screening point.

Out of the 225 persons tested for Covid-19 nine came positive.

And Barrick Lumwana Mine General Manager Paul Gillot said the donation of the medical supplies worth was designed to support the country in combating and containing the spread of Covid-19 pandemic.

Mr Gillot said the company engaged the Zambia’s national Covid-19 taskforce to convert its support into immediate action in the procurement of the items donated.

Mr Mubukwanu “As Government, we have attached great importance to the provision of health services to the people with the other stakeholders through partnerships,”