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Mtendere Mission Hospital started as a small Rural Health Centre in 1964. It
has grown over the years up to the current covered area of 5,460 square
meters and 1
The Hospital has a theoretical catchment population of about 18,000 shared
between eight major villages, but due to the inadequate equipment and
personnel in other adjacent hospitals and the great distance to University Teaching Hospital in
Lusaka, it is forced to fonction as a referral centre for the entire
Siavonga district and moreover for some areas in the neighbouring districts.
This fact raises the inhabitants of the catchment area to a number more than
60,000. The Hospital offers an extensive range of in-patient and out-patient diagnostic and treatment services including Laboratory, Ultrasonography, Endoscopy, Radiology, Operating Theater, Dental Care, Mother and Child Health, Public Health Services, Pharmacy.
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The Hospital is located in Chirundu, small township of the southern province
of Zambia, right in the
Zambezi valley boardering with Zimbabwe, about 150km f
The 145 beds available are allocated as follows:
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Medical Ward With 40 beds this ward has two wings housing male and female medical cases. A total of 1,360 Patients were admitted in 2003 with 11,589 days of admission and the bed occupancy rate was 76.2%. Majority of the cases were chronic conditions mainly HIV related. |
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Paediatric Ward 40 beds allocated in 2 sub-departments, one for medical diseases and the other for malnurished children. The recorded cases admitted in 2003 were 1,583, accounting for 9,208 days of admission. |
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Surgical ward 20 beds are allocated to this ward where the patients stay before and after the major surgical procedures. In 2003 373 patients were admitted, accounting for 4490 days of admission. |
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Obstetrics and Gynecology This ward received a total of 875 woman with a total of 3,551 days of admission. 613 deliveries were recorded and 20% were abnormal requesting special interventions.
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Neonatological Unit Four incubators are available for premature babies or for post-natal intensive care. |
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Private Rooms two beds rooms are available for patients desiring to have their privat space. Any room has toilet and shawer and Patients may select their meals. |
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45
bed capacity.
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the Capital Lusaka. Being in a rural area the hospital is surrounded by usual problems
of poverty which is characterised by poor road infrastructure, hunger,
disease and unemployment. The situation in Chirundu is worsened by the harsh
climatic conditions of extreme hot weather and very little rainfall. On the
other hand Chirundu is more of a trading area which is supported by a large
transient population of trucks through Chirundu bridge boardering Zambia and
Zimbabwe. This scenario has contributed to activities brought about by
unemployment like commercial sex thereby increasing the risks of the spread
of HIV/AIDS and STIs.