While the coverage of Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) services has increased to more facilities across the country in the past few years, quality of service remains low. However, Mulanje Mission Hospital in southern Malawi is one of the hospitals in the country that is providing quality KMC service.
“Nurses and other attendants in our KMC ward work hard to provide quality service because we have tried to provide a good working environment at Mulanje Mission Hospital to motivate them. We have donors who provide us with resources to make sure that the hospital has proper equipment, the environment is clean and our members of staff are properly cared for. This motivates our staff to work hard.”
Because of the quality of its KMC service, the hospital has turned into a referral unit for babies born prematurely from all over the district including those born at the main Mulanje District Hospital.