Category Archives: Health Care

In Balaka, a small town in southern Malawi, there is a government hospital that partially responds to the needs of the community. Andiamo Youth Cooperative Trust, with the help of Italian donors, in recent years has built and made operational a maternity ward, in 2011 built and set up the pediatrics ward, which will be operational shortly, in 2012 has completed the construction of the adults ward, that will be fitted with equipment  shpped by Orizzonte Malawi.The presence of the three departments at the small hospital gives the title of Community Hospital, officially recognized by the Malawian government. The Balaka district includes a small urban area and a large rural area. The absence of infrastructures makes communication difficult and therefore access to health services, so it was decided to build the decentralized structures of first aid: In Kapandatsitsi already operational, one under construction in Toleza, two centers at about 20 km from Balaka.

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