herapists in this one hospital than we have in our entire country."We were talking with the administrator at Kachere Orthopedic Hospital, Malawi’s only orthopedic hospital. Sitting at the conference table in the facility in Blantyre he picked up his pen, thought for a minute and listed the number of therapists in the country.
"There are 2 in Queens in Blantyre, but they are from Norway and leaving in November. Zomba has 2. At the Malawi Against Disabilities facility in Lilongwe there are 2 of them, and 1 in the government hospital. There are 3 teaching in Blantyre, but none in Mzuzu. Among the private ones there are three in Lilongwe. I think this is all we have in the country," he said.
This was our second time to visit the hospital in less than a year and again we marveled at the work the staff is doing with a limited amount of resources. However, we have seen some improvement in the past year, and a second shipment of equipment and supplies has just arrived from the Malawi Project in America. It will help, and help is all that is needed today.