By Musa Mdluli

MBABANE:Mduduzi Matsebula,the Minister of Health was a busy man on Thursday, he successfully mitigated a life thretening situation amid the ongoing health crisis.

This comes after Government ran out of equipment,kidney failure patients were earlier told this week that,they will not receive health services and as a result, hundreds of emaSwati were facing death.

But the Health Minister rushed to mitigate the life-threatening situation, a truck with some equipment arrived in Mbabane on Thursday afternoon and the Minister was present to off-load the equipment.

“We can announce that,the inconvenience that was caused by the shortage of dialysis equipment has been resolved and kidney failure patients will now receive assistance in Mbabane. After learning about the situation,we rushed to Hlathikhulu hospital to borrow some equipment while waiting for the truck with equipment from our suppliers,” said the Health Minister when addressing the media during a press conference after the delivery of the equipment.

Eswatini is facing serious health crisis amid shortage of drugs in public hospitals, hundreds have died the crisis erupted.