Macha Mission Hospital

Macha Mission Hospital is the health care provider for the greater Macha area, in the rural area of Choma District in Zambia's Southern Province. It is a grant aided hospital, administered by Brethren in Christ Church.

On Monday, 14 January 2008 the playroom at Macha Hospital was officially openend. Ms Esther Mukupa is the playroom assistant and doing a great job at that as well as being the master of ceremony during the opening. Speeches from Mr. Abram Mhango (Manager of Clinical Care) and Mrs. Jinaina (nurse in charge of pediatric ward) were well received. Gratitude was expressed to Jolanda and Esther (former short term nurses at Macha) who took up the idea of having a playroom and made it come to pass by making funds available. Also the work well done by the Ubuntu builders, the cooperation with nursing staff and hospital management was commented on. Mwaka, Hope and Merel took care of the entertainment and after the ribbon was cut the playroom was opened for the first target group!

The HIV-clinic for Macha Mission Hospital is coming! After receiving the first tranche of funding, from PrivaServe Foundation from the Netherlands, Macha Hospital has contracted the job to a local team of builders. They have started early May with the clearing of the site, and digging of the foundation. Architect Koos van Stam came to review progress during the past week.

Medicine in the Tropics, Rotation Report, by Kevin Driver
Macha Mission Hospital, Macha, Zambia
March - April 2007

Macha Mission Hospital
When looking for a site to rotate through for my tropical medicine elective, there were several features that drew me to Macha.  I was looking for a place where I could fully experience medicine as practiced in the tropics, somewhere with the resources to diagnose and treat common diseases but limited enough to be authentic to the setting of a developing country and a place for me to hone my clinical skills.  I also looked for a hospital that would be open and oriented to medical students, so that I would have ample support and supervision, but also be able to practice with autonomy and thus really be a benefit to a medically underserved community.  I feel that Macha fit all of these expectations.

Dear Gertjan, the Macha Community, and ‘Linknet’,

After about a year’s discussion and reflection, the development team and initial partners appear to have reached a consensus on a new name: the SmartCare system, for the portable EMR system formerly known as CCPTS (Continuity of Care and Patient Tracking System).  

This posting contains basic information on electives at Macha Hospital.

Primary Health Care (PHC) is an approach to make essential health care easily accessible to all individuals and families in the community by means acceptable to them, through their full participation, and at a cost they can afford.

Personnel at the primary level of health care work at a primary level facility or in the community.

Hospital Affiliated Health Center (HAHC) is a health center that, although located next to the hospital, is not a part of the hospital itself. It consists of the Primary Health Care center (PHC) and the Out Patient Department (OPD). This report is about the HAHC-activities at OPD.

This report has been written by 2 medical students, in preparation of their analyses from the TB clinic at Macha Hospital (Aug 2006)