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As of December 2020, there were six Level 3 hospitals in Zambia. [1] University Teaching Hospital (1,655 beds), Lusaka. Levy Mwanawasa University Teaching Hospital (826 beds), Lusaka. Ndola Central Hospital (800 beds), Ndola. Kitwe Central Hospital (630 beds), Kitwe. Cancer Diseases Hospital (252 beds), Lusaka [2] [3]
The Zambian Defence Force is the military of Zambia. It consists of the Zambian Army, the Zambian Air Force, and the Zambia National Service. [2] The defence forces were formed at Zambian independence on 24 October 1964, from constituent units of the dissolved Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland Armed Forces. [3]
Other countries in this region with large numbers of hospitals include Democratic Republic of Congo (435), Kenya (399) and South Africa (337). [1] The following list shows links to Lists of healthcare and hospital articles where they exist in Wikipedia and categories for hospitals in sovereign states in Africa.
The Zambia National Service, abbreviated ZNS, [2] is part of the Zambian Defence Force, has been a cornerstone of national development since its establishment in 1971 through an Act of Parliament. [3] [4] Committed to the twin objectives of training civilian and safeguarding the territorial integrity of Zambia, [5] [6] [7] the ZNS Act empowers ...
List of hospitals in Zambia. The Levy Mwanawasa University Teaching Hospital (LMUTH) is a public tertiary referral hospital in Lusaka, Zambia. [1] The hospital has 1100 beds and was named after the former president of Zambia, Levy Mwanawasa. [2] [3] It was found in 2011 and was established on 22 May 2018 as part of Levy Mwanawasa Medical ...
Health in Zambia. Zambia is a landlocked country in Sub Saharan Africa which experiences a burden of both communicable and non-communicable diseases. In line with WHO agenda for equity in health, it has adopted the Universal Health Coverage agenda to mitigate the challenges faced within the health sector. The Ministry of Health (MOH) provides ...
Zambia is a landlocked country in southern Africa, with a tropical climate, and consists mostly of high plateaus with some hills and mountains, dissected by river valleys. At 752,614 km 2 (290,586 sq mi) it is the 39th-largest country in the world, slightly smaller than Chile.
It started in 1958 as Llewlyn Hospital, named after Lord Llewelyn, one of the Governors in Northern Rhodesia. It was changed to Kitwe Central Hospital in 1964 following independence. It is the third level referral hospital serving the second largest populated city in Zambia. It has 664 bed capacity and with daily patient traffic of up to 1,300.