Blessings Hospital
In 1999 three people sat in the home of a small businessman in Madisi, Malawi discussing the medical needs of the nation. Two were Malawians and two were Americans. Mr. Lambrguski, now deceased, had invited the guests to the house for an evening of friendship. Little did he know what would develop from these discussions. In a matter of weeks the American portion of the team, Richard and Suzi Stephens were back in America forming the Malawi Project, and Napoleon Dzombe, a businessman in the lumber business was in the capital city trying to locate a contractor who knew how to build a hospital. One year later the building was complete and the Malawi Project was shipping 40-foot trailers filled with medical equipment and supplies that would make the building a hospital. The goal was for the hospital to become a not-for-profit medical facility that would serve the needs of the poor in Malawi.
In 2000 the Malawi Medical Council approved the opening of the first building for giving outpatient care to the community. A disastrous famine interrupted further construction on the second building until 2005. In spite of the interruption patient care continued and in 2005 the facility qualified to begin offering inpatient services.
In 2004 the Malawi Project supplied the funds to construct a large medical warehouse near the hospital in order to supply Blessings with its medical needs and to extend a supply network into every region of Malawi.
By 2006 the Malawi Project had supplied the funds to complete the second building of the hospital, as well as to fund a stand alone surgery center and an additional medical supply building for expanding the medical supply network.
At the end of 2007 the facility had moved from dependence on the Malawi Project to full independence to function on its own.
