Paul Mushindo: Difference between revisions

President Sata is not the first President of [[Zambia]] to recognise the great works of the Rev Mushindo but President [[Frederick Chiluba]] recognised the Reverend by buying a house for Mrs Mushindo in 1998.

 

Mrs Mushindo had cataracts and developed temporary blindness.  One evening in 1998, at the family house at [[Lubwa Mission]], she fell and broke her hip bone. She was, through the kind arrangement of Dr [[Jonathan Munkombwe]], flown from [[Chinsali]] to [[Lusaka]] by the [[Zambia Flying Doctor Service]].

 

When President Chiluba was informed about the accident, he arranged for her to undergo a hip bone replacement operation at the Italian Hospital in Lusaka.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      After the operation, she was transferred to [[Maina Soko Military Hospital where a Dr Banda operated on her eyes and her sight was restored. She spent many months recuperating in Lusaka and her nephew’s house.

 

President Chiluba visited her and during the visit, he learnt that the old lady would not be able to use a pit latrine at her Lubwa house because of the artificial hip bone. It was against this background that Dr Chiluba decided to buy a house for her in [[Chinsali]] Boma at a cost of ZMK 6 million (ZMW 6,000).  She died in dignity in that house in 1999.