As Africa Healthcare Institute of Chingola we wish to inform the general public that our school is a fully registered institution which operates within the legal framework of Zambian laws.
As a school we wish to distance ourselves from any remarks attributed to Health Deputy Minister Dr Chitalu Chilufya who was quoted in the Times of Zambia of August 26, 2014 Edition number 16, 053, saying our school ‘Africa Healthcare Institute’ is illegal and that the institution under the auspices of the Zambia Civil Society Health Partnership started operating without Government authorization.
We are a registered NGO and we have signed a tripartite Memorandum of Understanding, with Ministry of Health, and International Cooperating Partners.
We feel the best way Health Deputy Minister could have handled the matter was to tell us where we may not be meeting the required standards, no wonder we invited him to our school, to tour the facility and propose what he could have thought were areas that require improvement.
Our major aim is to supplement Government’s effort in improving health care delivery to the Zambian people; especially that infant mortality rate is high in Chingola.
We stand ready to be corrected; we only feel off the road that the Deputy Minister opted to issue a directive despite our effort to take him to the school for him to see the available documentation and correspondence between his Government, International funders and the school.
School Executive Director
Christine Kapampa