| St Martins' Hospital, Malindi | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | Malindi, Mangochi District, Southern Region, Malawi |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Missionary |
| Funding | Charitable |
| Type | Community |
| Services | |
| Beds | 100 |
| History | |
| Opened | July 1, 1898 |
St Martins' Hospital, Malindi, is a 100-bed missionary community hospital in the town of Malindi, Malawi. [1]
The hospital is located in Malindi, a town in Mangochi District, in the Southern Region of Malawi. Malindi is located approximately 24 kilometres (15 mi), by road, north of Mangochi, where the district headquarters are located. [2] This is about 215 kilometres (134 mi), by road, north of Blantyre, the largest city in Malawi's Southern Region. [3]
This hospital is under the jurisdiction of the Lakeshore Health Department of the Diocese of Southern Malawi–Upper Shire, a component of the Church of the Province of Central Africa. [1]
St Martin’s caters to a population of approximately 40,000 people in Malindi and neighboring settlements. In addition to the hospital facilities, a mobile medical unit is available to take services to needy, distant communities. [1]
The hospital has the following departments [1]
The hospital was founded in 1898, as a clinic, staffed by one nurse, who cared for sick missionaries and their families. Over the next five years the hospital expanded enough so that it could accommodate 305 patients per month. [1]
By 2014, the bed capacity had increased to 50 and although there was no doctor, there were five capable clinical officers and a team of nurses and patient assistants, who kept the hospital in motion. The hospital runs a daily antiretroviral clinic, as well as regular antenatal, family planning, and vaccination clinics. The operating room is used for caesarean sections, female sterilizations, hernia repairs, and incision and drainage operations. [4]
As of November 2018, the hospital had grown to 100 in-patient beds. There is currently no doctor at this hospital and it is instead run by the two Clinical Officers Mr Peter Moffat and Mr Harvey Likapa. [5]
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