St Martins' Hospital, Malindi | |
Location: | Malindi |
Region: | Mangochi District |
State: | Southern Region |
Country: | Malawi |
Healthcare: | Missionary |
Funding: | Charitable |
Type: | Community |
Beds: | 100 |
Wiki-Links: | Hospitals in Malawi |
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 24km (15miles), by road, north of Mangochi, where the district headquarters are located.[2] This is about 215km (134miles), 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]