The Women of Malawi Charity, in conjunction with CRS Mobile Cold Storage, is coordinating
the delivery of a fully equipped operating theatre to The Mua Catholic Hospital.
The Charity, in collaboration with the doctors and healthcare professionals of Malawi, has identified a district of great need. This ensures that the operating theatre will be situated to make a significant impact.
To ensure the successful implementation of this project, Dr. Valerie Donnelly, the founder of Women of Malawi, has visited several times with the medical community. The theater will be outfitted with equipment that is both
familiar to the health care workers and maintainable by the existing staff. In addition, CRS has sent a team whom have confirmed the technical feasibility location and placement of the operating theater.
The operating theater is currently being designed and constructed in Ireland. The first phase, generously funded by Paul Tyrrell of CRS, is two temperature-controlled and self-powered containers. The two containers will be joined together to form a 10 x 16 x 40 foot enclosed environment. This space will become the main operating theater at Mua, with a fully outfitted theater which includes an operating table, a resuscitation unit, an anesthetic machine and other pertinent medical equipment.
WHY MUA
“I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.”
Stephen Lewis - United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa (2001-2006).
Beyond reasons of great need, there is another reason the Mua district has been chosen.
When delivering aid to anybody in need, it is profoundly more effective to help the people that are already making things better for their community. In Mua, you find such a people, a group with such determination and capacity to survive that far surpasses our own imagination and understanding.
With vastly outdated eq
uipment and poor, substandard facilities, the health community continues through any adversity to save and treat human lives. This project builds on capacities and fosters the existing strengths within the district. This helps increase the chance of survival and in turn helps develop, and promote a strong and healthy population.
When people are given assistance within their own environment and capabilities, and not a completely new idea and method, it tends to reinforce their confidence and self worth. This confidence and self worth also promotes a health and cohesive social environment: a necessary cornerstone in any country, developing or developed.
Stephen Lewis - United Nations Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa (2001-2006).
Beyond reasons of great need, there is another reason the Mua district has been chosen.
When delivering aid to anybody in need, it is profoundly more effective to help the people that are already making things better for their community. In Mua, you find such a people, a group with such determination and capacity to survive that far surpasses our own imagination and understanding.
With vastly outdated eq
uipment and poor, substandard facilities, the health community continues through any adversity to save and treat human lives. This project builds on capacities and fosters the existing strengths within the district. This helps increase the chance of survival and in turn helps develop, and promote a strong and healthy population. When people are given assistance within their own environment and capabilities, and not a completely new idea and method, it tends to reinforce their confidence and self worth. This confidence and self worth also promotes a health and cohesive social environment: a necessary cornerstone in any country, developing or developed.
Mua Catholic Hospital Staff
L-R Terence (Doctor), David (Accountant) & Montfort (CEO)
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