Health

Objective:

• To create awareness and improve health standards.
• To support and improve existing health care facilities.

Strategy:

• Conducting periodical outreach medical camps and campaigns for spreading awareness of malaria, cervical and prostrate cancer, etc.
• Providing clean drinking water.
• Maintaining clean surroundings.

Beneficiaries:

• Residents of Maamba Township and Sinazongwe District.
• Locals living in remote areas in areas where MCL conducts its business.

MCL has always been at the forefront of helping improve health facilities in the district by providing material support to and assisting in infrastructure development at Maamba General Hospital as well conducting periodic outreach health camps for people staying in remote and inaccessible areas. Soon after privatisation, the company’s sponsors Nava Ltd. (formerly Nava Bharat Ventures Ltd.), India donated US$ 500, 000 for helping with construction of the Eye Clinic at UTH, Lusaka. Presently, the company in partnership with the Ministry of Health and Operation Eyesight Universal is the final stages of setting up a state-of-art Eye Care Centre which will greatly help the needy of the district which is plagued by highest cases of avoidable blindness in the country. The company has also recently built a Clinic in remote Lake Kariba to easy access of the people living in inaccessible locations to medical care and facilities.