Mopani bails out KCH
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Mopani Copper MineBy MILDRED KATONGO –
KITWE is the second largest city in terms of size and population in Zambia. It is one of the most developed commercial and industrial areas in the nation.
Kitwe Central Hospital (KCH) is the only Government hospital in Kitwe. It was opened in 1958.
The hospital serves as one of the three teaching hospitals in the country where newly qualified doctors go to do there internship and where medical students and student clinical officers do their
KCH has a bed capacity of around 630 providing mostly acute but also elective medical and surgical services.
It also acts as the tertiary referral institution in the region.
Not all patients admitted at KCH have relatives to take care of them in terms of providing food stuffs.
With an increased population KCH need other partners to come on board and help in terms of feeding the patients who do not have relatives.
After seeing the need of taking care of the less privileged in the community, Mopani Copper Mine (MCM) employees were compelled to donate food staffs and blankets worth over K100, 000 to KCH.
This gesture by MCM employees was in an effort to reach out to the less privileged in the society.
The donated stuffs included bags of mealie-meal, bales of sugar, 20 liters containers of cooking oil and 150 blankets.
KCH acting senior medical superintendent Kennedy Gondwe said the gesture by Mopani mine employees would go a long way in helping patients that did not have relatives to take care of them.
Dr Gondwe said the institution was in need of such food stuffs to help their patients who did not have food and blankets.
He commended Mopani mine employees for their initiative to reach out to the less privileged in the community.
“As an institution we are happy and we commend Mopani employees for thinking of us by providing food that is much needed for our patients,” he said.
MCM employee representative Chuma Kabaghe said the employees together with Laurel mining contractor came up with an initiative to reach out to the less privileged and help in a small way.
Ms Kabaghe said the referral center was among other institutions that were identified to receive the food stuffs for the less privileged.
“We have identified places, among those places KCH was also identified and today we have donated food stuffs and blankets,” she said.
Ms Kabaghe hoped that the food stuffs would go a long way in helping the patients that had no relatives to take care of them.
The employees did not end at donating to KCH they also donated assorted food stuffs and blankets to St Martin orphanage.

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