Malawi - Second rural health care project

The Second Rural Health Care Project has been designed to strengthen the delivery of health care to populations in rural areas of Malawi in line with the Five-Year Development Plan. The project supports the efforts of the Government in providing comprehensive rural health care in order to meet basic health needs identified in rural Malawi. It is intended to improve health facilities and train required qualified staff to man such facilities. The project will consist of the following components: (i) replacement of the existing Ntchisi district hospital; (ii) extension of the existing Blantyre School of Nursing and the Medical Assistants Training School with provisions of equipment and furniture; (iii) establishment of fourteen health sub-centres fully equipped and furnished; (iv) strengthening of communicable diseases programmes through provision ef equipment and supplies and re-training of staff; (v) strengthening of planning capabilities of the Ministry of Health through provision of scholarship for staff training.