S cotland’s health partnerships with Zambia and Malawi have “transformed healthcare in many ways”, First Minister John Swinney has said.

The First Minister visited the Blantyre-Blantyre research lab in Lusaka which has been supported by Scottish Government funding to improve health outcomes in Zambia and Malawi.

While visiting he announced £125,000 for charity Kids Operating Room to support adapting Nasa technology to generate oxygen in low-resource settings.

Ahead of arriving in Malawi on Thursday, the First Minister also announced a further £4m funding over three years to help tackle non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and sickle cell disease.

Swinney said: “Over the 20-year period of our development programme, Scotland has a strong history of supporting health

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