One of India’s leading private hospitals, KIMS, has offered free air tickets to underprivileged patients in Zambia to be treated in India if a Memorandum of Understanding -MOU is signed with the Government.
KIMS Hospital Director Bollineni Abhinay says the MOU will also encompass the establishment of a dialysis centre in Zambia.
He says Kims has ten hospitals in India totaling over three Thousand beds with separate units for bone marrow, heart and kidney transplants.
Dr. Abhinay says the hospital trains over two hundred doctors every year and Zambian doctors can benefit from the training for further skills development.
This came to light when Zambia’s High Commissioner to India Judith Kapijimpanga toured Kims Hospital over two Thousand kilometres away from the Indian Capital New Delhi.
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.
She says 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 says Zambia’s health sector has made significant investment in infrastructure and equipment but requires capacity building.

Mrs. Kapijimpanga adds that 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.