The hospital provides a wide range of services and hosts various specialist units:
Accident & Emergency Trauma Centre (AETC): Provides emergency care for adult patients with medical, surgical, trauma, or obstetric/gynaecological conditions. A separate paediatric emergency department also exists.
Specialist Units:
Children’s Cancer Centre (Paediatric Oncology ward)
Orthopaedic & Prosthetics Centre
Respiratory and High-dependency care
Stroke Unit
Neurosurgery
ENT (Ear, Nose, and Throat)
Eye Clinic
Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology
Internal Medicine, Surgery, Anesthesiology, and Critical Care Medicine departments
Ancillary Services: Limited on-site laboratory, X-ray, and ultrasound capabilities exist.
Key Information
Type: Public, tertiary referral, and teaching hospital.
Funding: Public hospital; all medical care is free.
Beds: Officially has 1,350 beds available.
Affiliation: Clinical base for training medical students and specialists at the Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (formerly College of Medicine
