Refurbishing and Supplying Clinics
MEL is often given money ‘with no strings attached’. If community health centres are in dire need of maintenance, we help in a variety of ways:
In 2014, Ted Crampton also came to help the Health Centre, digging a new borehole, installing a new pumping system, all at his own expense, to restore much-needed running water to the clinic and the staff housing. New mothers can now be some of the other beneficiaries
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Some well-wishers have also donated the £160 or so needed to build a bicycle ambulance for remote communities whose only other method of transporting their sick to the clinics is in a wheelbarrow or on a bicycle. As one headman said: ‘our villagers go to the clinic sick and come back dead’. 4 villages now increase the chances of seeing members of their communities come back alive because the 20kms or so journey is more comfortable, less dangerous to their health.
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Rewiring, renewing ceilings so that Ngala Health Centre is a safe, light, powered environment for patients, especially women coming in to give birth. Previously, the delivery room at this centre included bats and owls (see photo - heralds of forthcoming death in Malawian superstition!) among its occupants:
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