Africa-Press – Eswatini. Sincephetelo Motor Vehicle Accidents Fund (SMVAF) intends to upgrade the over E50 million Ekuphileni Clinic into a specialist hospital.
This will happen as part of the fund’s seamless strategy 2020-2024, where an intention was expressed to expand the services offered by Ekuphileni Clinic (currently a cold facility operating as a diagnostic centre), to a specialist hospital.
SMVAF established Ekuphileni Clinic as a standalone company. The clinic is owned 100 per cent by SMVAF and supervised by an independent board of directors.
In the request for proposals (RFP) seeking consultants to undertake a full feasibility study for the development of the specialist hospital, it was explained that the strategic objective would be to leverage Ekuphileni clinic assets, provide affordable quality public health care, increase in high critical care capacity in specialist areas such as oncology, trauma and rehabilitative care, among others.
SMVAF also wants the clinic to be equity financed with co-investor versus being solely owned.
“Tenderers are required to provide professional, objective, and impartial advice and at all times hold the SMVAF’s interests paramount, strictly avoid conflicts with other assignments or their own corporate interests, and act without any consideration for future work,” SMVAF advised.
As part of specific work experience, the consultant will be expected to have achieved at least three successful hospital sites within the past five years in the health sector, preferably green field projects and at least one successful and currently operating site.
SMVAF is a category A public enterprise created as an instrument through which the government of Eswatini treats, rehabilitates and compensates victims of road traffic accidents. It is also empowered to collaborate with stakeholders in the prevention of motor vehicle accidents.
Sincephetelo Motor Vehicle Accidents Fund is a replacement of the third-party insurance which was operational in the country between 1973–1986 where victims of road traffic accidents claimed compensation.
However, the increase in traffic accidents hiked premiums and motorists could not afford keeping up with their payments. As a result, many people that were injured in traffic accidents could not be compensated. Government established a universal cover for victims of motor vehicle accidents that would be sustained by a fuel levy system, which currently is at 35 cents a litre of fuel imported.
The fund has an improved operating model, aligned business processes and the proficient operations building-upon the envisaged fully converged post-crash value chain approach.
The post-crash value chain organisation drives sustainable value creation for claimants from evacuation of road accident victims, to their treatment, rehabilitation and compensation for third party liability.
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