Welcome on the website of Lumezi Hospital Foundation.

The government in Zambia is not able to deliver educated staff, till equiped houses are available. We are trying to realize 3 new staff houses of € 25.000,- each.

Two of the staff houses are realized already.Hhowever, the hosptial needs more houses to give the doctors and employees a place to live and work. Without these facilities a lot of local people will be excluded from healthcare.

Lumezi-Hospital

LOCATION
Located in the Eastern Province in Zambia, on the road connecting Chipata to Lundazi. This Missionary Hospital, run by Sister-in-charge Hermenegilda Mbaga (from Mozambique), receive about 500 patients a day in the ambulatory.

Lumezi Zonal Health Centre is currently operating as a level one hospital. The process of upgrading the centre to a first level referral hospital has already started, but official requests sent to the Ministry of Health in Lusaka have not yet been approved. Recognition of Lumezi Zonal Health Centre as a level one hospital will allow us to receive the medication, funding and staffing appropriate to our level of work and enable us to continue providing quality health care services to Lumezi community and the nearest centres. Equipment in theatre and x-ray are out-dated and inadequate for the centre operating at its current level. Staffing levels are very low for Lumezi to provide quality health services. We need assitional housing to enable staff to come to Lumezi. None of our CDEs are on the government payroll, unlike in other mission health centres.

HOSPITAL MISSION
To take health care services to the community as close as possible to the family
VISION STATEMENT To reduce the occurrence rate of preventable illnesses from the community
GOAL To contribute to the improvement of quality and accessible health care, curative, preventive, rehabilitative, mitigative, spiritually, and psychologically to Lumezi Catchment Area.

STAFFING LEVELS
Administrator1
Doctors1
Medical Licentiate Practionaire 1
Registered Nurses 1
Registered Midwives 4
Enrolled Nurses 7
Enrolled Midwives 5
Clinical Officers 3
Radio logist 1
Lab technology 1
Nutritionist 1
EHT 1
Pharmacy dispenser 1
Cooks 2
Laundryman 2
Watchman 3
Data Entry Clerk 1
Accountant 1
Drivers 3
Laboratory Assistant 1
Lab microscopic 1
CDE’s34

Zambia

Zambia borders 8 countries; the surface is 752.618 km² (It's size is as big as France and England together) and counts 12.000.000 residents. 1000 - 1.600 m height.

There is a total of 3 seasons in Zambia, the dry and cool season, the warm and wet season,
the dry and warm season.

History:
In 1895 Zambia was a British colony called 'Northern Rodesia'. It's been independent since October 24 1964. It's current president is: Rupiah Banda

about the foundation

The Lumezi Hospital Foundation is a charity foundation established in April 2011 and is aiming to support hospitals is less developed countries. It is an independent non-profit organization situated in The Netherlands.

It focuses on material support, financial support and practical knowledge for sustainable development of enterprising hospitals in less developed countries in particular Zambia, Africa.

The Lumezi Hospital Foundation brings together international technical, organizational and financial health care know-how.

Our Mission: the Lumezi Hospital Foundation mission is to deliver all needed support for enterprising hospitals in less developed countries to bring their service delivery up to international standards. In doing so the Foundation contributes to level of health service delivery and improving health care management and leadership of supported organizations The Lumezi Hospital Foundation balances the interchange of Dutch best health care practices and best practices of supported hospitals in such a way that both sides will benefit from it.

organizational

	Auke Klaver, chairman of the foundation, general board member and health care director in the Dutch health care sector
	Alice Terberg – Froeling, member of the board, international health care consultant
	Hans Bossert, member of the board, management consultant at Public Impact and professor public governance Universiteit Nyenrode and VU Amsterdam

Besides the board members the Foundation has a number of trustees which are organized in a so-called curatorium and have supported the Foundation both financially and practically.

projects

1) DENTAL CARE IN LUMEZI HOSPITAL
Problems for realizing necessary dental care Dental chair 1,Bench top autoclave 1,Sterilizer 1,Dental amalgamator 2,Dental compressor 2,Dental films/developer1,Dental instrumental cabinet 1,Dental instrument sets 4,Dental tray 4,Dental light/spot light 1,Dental caring unit 1, Dental treatment trolley 1,Dentist stool 2,Patient chairs 4,Ultrasonic dental scale 2,Portable x ray machine 1,Drileng machine 1,Local dental anaesthetistic,Filling materials, Extractor ,Elevator and emergence tray.

2) STAFF HOUSES FOR THE LUMEZI HOSPITAL
Big shortage of Staff houses € 25.000 each in Lumezi Government delivers trained and educated staff

partners & sponsors

http://www.abcd-management.nl

http://www.valori.nl

http://www.cure4finance.nl

http://www.coppa.nl

http://www.flaxe.eu

donors

contact

downloads activities

In the attachments you can find all relevant information about the Lumezi hospital.
First you can read the annual report 2010 with all content and figures you want to read about the Lumezi Hospital.
During my last visit we made an update of the Lumezi Action Plan 2010-2015. In this plan you can se3e the project which are realised and the project which are plannend to realise in the next years.
Finally you can read the last report  update from my last visit in September 2011.

>> annual report 2010

>> Lumezi Action Plan 2010-2015

>> Lumezi Hospital september 2011