SHINYANGA, Nov. 10 -- PRIME Minister Mwigulu Nchemba has directed regional and district medical officers across the country to allocate funds for ambulance fuel in their health service budgets to ensure patients requiring emergency referrals are not delayed over demands for fuel contributions.

He issued the directive today, November 9, 2026, while addressing residents of Iselamagazi in Solwa Constituency, Shinyanga District Council, during his working visit to Shinyanga Region.

“We should not ask people to contribute money for ambulance fuel. An ambulance should transport patients to hospital without delay. An ambulance is not a public commuter bus, and nurses are not conductors collecting fuel contributions,” he said.

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