Eight heath centres in Blantyre and three in Chikwawa have been supported with emergency equipment worth K11 million in a drive to reduce infancy mortality.<\/p>\n
Malawi Liverpool Wellcome (MLW) Trust under a project, Chipatala Robot, made the contribution Monday.<\/p>\n
Speaking at Ndirande Health Centre in Blantyre, MLW Project Coordinator for Emergency, Triage, Assessment and Treatment Mtisunge Gondwe said there was a gap as the primary health facilities were running without or with little emergency equipment.<\/p>\n
This was a problem as children who were assessed to be critically ill had to be ferried to a secondary or tertiary health facility.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe identified a gap that when emergency signs were seen in child, there was no equipment to manage the situation. So you see the distance between a health facility and Queen Elizabeth (Central Hospital) is long for somebody who is in a critical condition. So with the equipment, a child can be stabilised at a health centre while waiting for an ambulance to get the patient to a referral facility,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She said, currently, the time patients wait to a see a medical practitioner has drastically reduced.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the project, patients who are critically sick are able to see a medical personnel in less than 30 minutes and if they are priority patients, they are able to see a doctor within one hour,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Blantyre District Health Officer Dr Medson Matchaya, who graced the handover ceremony, said infant mortality rate will greatly reduce.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is a terminology in medicine called golden hour \u2013 thus the time a parent sees signs of sickness in a child to the time the child sees a doctor. That hour is very critical because the outcome will determine the health status of the child. With this project, the golden our will be improved because a sick child needs a quick medical attention,\u201d he said<\/p>\n
Chipatala Robot, which started in 2012 in Chikwawa and Blantyre, aims at having very sick children get treatment first instead of waiting in a queue and targets children between zero and 14 years.<\/p>\n
Some of the items handed over to the 11 primary health facilities include oxygen concentrators, sanction machines, pulse oximeters and nebuliser machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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