The 100th of 115 20-bed Mini Hospitals has been completed, at Mwase Mphangwe chiefdom in Lumezi District, Eastern Province and, following installation and commissioning of equipment and end user training, handed over to the Ministry of Health.
Commenting on the milestone, Matt Jordan, Managing Director said: “This is an outstanding achievement worthy of note. Working with Suscon Construction and our other project partners, NMS is playing its part in strengthening rural healthcare in some of the remotest locations in the World.”
In this remote part of Zambia, roads are impassable during the rainy season and the community consists mainly of low income smallholder subsistence farmers. The chiefdom is located in a wildlife corridor close to the Malawi and Mozambique borders where wildlife such as elephants, buffalo, hyena and other animals travel throughout the year across unfenced conservation areas.
Gordon Mudge PhD, Head of ESG, observed: “These outstanding health facilities are contributing significantly to local public health in a rural area marred by worsening climate change, chronic food insecurity and few markets for farmers to sell their crops.”