{"id":4263,"date":"2015-06-16T08:11:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T08:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=4263"},"modified":"2015-06-16T08:11:42","modified_gmt":"2015-06-16T08:11:42","slug":"malawi-savings-bank-donates-k4-3m-equipment-to-qech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2015\/06\/16\/malawi-savings-bank-donates-k4-3m-equipment-to-qech\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawi Savings Bank donates K4.3m equipment to QECH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi Savings Bank (MSB) has donated medical equipment worth K4.3 million to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The donation, comprising oxygen concentrators, suction machines, sterlising machine and a patient monitor, will go to the pediatric and Chatinkha maternity wards.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting the donation to the hospital, MSB Chief Executive Officer Ian Bonongwe said Malawi has a high infant mortality rate because of lack of life sustaining facilities at hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis kind of equipment is essential but very expensive and beyond reach of majority hospitals,\u201d said Bonongwe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know that the equipment donated today is not enough. But it is a glimpse of hope to many people and the nation because QECH is the biggest referral hospital in the country,\u201d said Bonongwe.<\/p>\n<p>QECH Chief Hospital Administrator, Themba Mhango, said the government cannot meet the demand alone, hence the need to partner with the private sector.<\/p>\n<p>He said due to lack of equipment, the hospital fails to deliver quality service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe donation is a great relief to the hospital staff as the equipment will ease the pressure of their job,\u201d said Mhango.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi Savings Bank (MSB) has donated medical equipment worth K4.3 million to Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital. The donation, comprising oxygen concentrators, suction machines, sterlising machine and a patient monitor, will go to the pediatric and Chatinkha maternity wards. Presenting the donation to the hospital, MSB Chief Executive Officer Ian Bonongwe said Malawi has a high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4268,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4263\/revisions\/4268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}