
Health & Social Care
Find out about the work being done at Sachibondu Mission
At Sachibondu there is a Rural Health Centre that serves the communities far and wide and patients come from across the district and beyond as far as Congo and Angola. The health centre is run by a small team of nurses and midwives who are doing their best to serve and save lives. Patients can access primary health care, and under-fives clinics providing health checks and vaccinations for children.
The Nurses, midwives and traditional birth assistants work together to provide services from ante-natal right through to post-delivery, assisting mothers in the critical moments of birthing their children as well as saving the lives of many young first-time mothers and their sometimes very premature babies.
The lab provides testing, treatment and raise awareness for HIV and TB across the region. Multiple malaria cases are treated every week, and the staff go out into the communities to provide mobile clinics to those in the far-reaching rural areas. Weekly nutrition classes are hosted, and cookery lessons help families overcome malnutrition and raising awareness of healthy diet and living.
There is currently 25 beds for in-patients, laboratory services are provided where a variety of tests are run to assist the health care workers in providing accurate diagnosis.
The health centre is partly funded by the Zambian government, but the funding is very minimal, and it is not enough to provide the effective care needed by the thousands of people that access the centre annually.









