Medical Aid to Malawi, Africa

2008-04-21

Giving Children Hope is partnering with Loma Linda University to equip the Malamulo Adventist Hospital in Malawi with needed equipment, supplies and pharmaceuticals.

Malamulo Adventist Hospital is a 275 bed hospital and is headed by CEO Don L. Schatzschneider. The hospital has been recognized as being the best hospital in Malawi and the third best on the continent for its treatment of HIV/AIDS. The reported HIV infection rate in Malawi is 17% but it is likely double that due to the stigma associated with HIV in Malawi. The current life expectancy in the country is 37 years of age and is rapidly dropping. The hospital has a very high success rate of 1% (lower than the US) in preventing the transmission of the virus from mother to child.

Founded in 1908, it is located in the southernmost part of the country in a rural area with the most pressing diseases being malaria, HIV/AIDS, infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, and mal-nutrition of children under 5. It serves approximately 6,000 individuals per month, mainly women and children.

The hospital currently uses a plethora of volunteers and is sending them to 18 clinics rural destinations to conduct training in these rural communities.

The country has suffered from “brain drain” where many of the trained individuals having left the country to work in other places leaving too few doctors in the country. The hospital is partnered with an adjoining Malamulo College of Medical Science, which trains nurses, medical technicians, medical assistants, and clinical practitioners.

Loma Linda University has been partnering with Malamulo Adventist Hospital and is seeking to create a field station there, which would be a training, ground for all of Africa.

Giving Children Hope became associated with Malamulo through Board of Director Kimberly Payne who is a professor at Loma Linda University. Your partnership is needed to enable this shipment of highly valuable equipment, supplies and medicines in the country of Malawi. If you’d like to contribute to this project, please send your check payable to Giving Children Hope and mark Malawi project in the notes.

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