The ambulance project which will result in all rural health districts receiving an ambulance each will be implemented in coordination with the Ministry of Health and managed by the United Nations Population Fund.
A statement released by the delegation of the EU to Zimbabwe yesterday
said: “The ambulance project is part of the more than $13 million health aid programme that seeks to improve maternal health through revitalization of Maternity Waiting Homes and related services.”
Some 150,000 women are expected to benefit from the faciliity and other services at 105 centres over three years.
Recently Deputy Prime Minister Thokhozani Khupe said the number of women in Zimbabwe dying during delivery has increased from 725 to 960 deaths for every 100, 000 live births.
She said there was urgent need for some interventions as the deaths were increasing for both babies and mothers.
Every year some 3, 000 mothers and 30, 000 young children die from causes that are largely preventable, according to official statistics.
Through the Health Transition Fund launched in 2011 by Government with support from the governments of Canada, Sweden, United Kingdom, The EU, Norway, Switzerland, Ireland and UN partner agencies, Zimbabwe managed to scrap the maternal user fee at government and local authority health institutions.
The HTF is helping to increase access to health services for mothers, babies and young children.
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