Admissions to Mvumi Hospital
Life on the children's ward
Mvumi Central Sterile Supplies and Intravenous Fluids Unit
Building the Chigonela Antenatal Hostel
Mvumi Hospital Picture Gallery
Photo stories: Life in and around Mvumi Hospital
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Admissions to Mvumi Hospital |
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Life on the children's ward |
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Mvumi Central Sterile Supplies and Intravenous Fluids Unit |
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Building the Chigonela Antenatal Hostel |
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Picture gallery: Click on the photograph to see a larger image.
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An aerial view of Mvumi Hospital taken during the landing approach of Dr Hyung-Dong Park a flying doctor who performed surgery for several years at Mvumi Hospital before returning to Korea to undertake training in cardiac surgery. March 1997. |
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A second aerial view of the hospital taken during the same trip as that above. Here is an annotated photograph showing the main buildings at Mvumi Hospital.March 1997. |
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A view of the front of the outpatient's department at Mvumi Hospital towards sunset. The outpatients' department is the entry point for all patients in the hospital. Patients are first examined by trained personnel and then admitted for treatment or given a prescription for medicines to be obtained at the pharmacy. Admission to the hospital is possible at all times of the day and night. March 1997. |
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Colin Wheeler, the editor of this web site, during a visit to Mvumi Hospital in 1997, on his way from Chihembe church with local children. June 1997. |
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A continuing problem in Mvumi Hospital and for the whole region is the water supply. The hospital is supplied by its own borehole, but this struggles to meet demand. Fresh water is vital to the running of the hospital and with money from the Friends of Mvumi the water system has started to undergo renovation. The photograph here shows a WAMMA team from Water Aid re-boring the hospital water hole to improve the flow. However, it has now been established that the hospital needs a new borehole to meet demand and funds are being sought to provide this. June 1997 |
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A young Gogo boy waiting in Isalasa church for the beginning of the Sunday morning service. June 1997 |
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Healthy crops at a shamba (farm) in Mvumi village before the drought in 1997. In the foreground are young maize plants which provide the staple diet in this area. Set among the trees are typical Gogo "tembe" mud brick houses. March 1997 |
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A normal morning in the outpatient's department at Mvumi hospital. Patient's are examined here by the medical staff before treatment or admission to one of the wards. |
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Gogo patients wrapped against the cold pass the early morning in the shade of a tree in the hospital compound. |
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The nurses hostel at Mvumi Hospital. Mvumi is an important training centre for nurses, midwives, clinical officers, laboratory assistants and hospital technicians. |
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