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As of December 2020, there were six Level 3 hospitals in Zambia. [1]University Teaching Hospital (1,655 beds), Lusaka; Levy Mwanawasa University Teaching Hospital (826 beds), Lusaka
The University Teaching Hospital serves as both a hospital and a training site for future health workers. [12] There are very few hospitals in rural or remote places in Zambia, where most communities rely on small government-run community health centres and rural health posts.
The Levy Mwanawasa University Teaching Hospital (LMUTH) is a public tertiary referral hospital in Lusaka, Zambia. [1] The hospital has 1100 beds and was named after the former president of Zambia, Levy Mwanawasa. [2] [3] It was found in 2011 and was established on 22 May 2018 as part of Levy Mwanawasa Medical University (LMMU).
In Zambia, the number of midwives per 1,000 live births is 5 and the lifetime risk of death for pregnant women is 1 in 38. [20] Zambia may not attain its goals for reducing the Maternal Mortality ratio to 162/100,000 live births. For Under-5 Mortality rate and infant Mortality rate, the target is 63.3 and 35.7, respectively. [21]
The acquisitions of the 51 hospitals took place between 2010 and 2017. The study identified neither the hospitals whose outcomes it recorded nor the private-equity firms that owned them.
The hospital is located at the north-western corner of the city centre of Ndola in Copperbelt Province, at the corner of Nkana Road and Broadway. [4] The facility has nearly 706 medical and trained administrative personnel, with more than 200 nurses. [4] The hospital serves as a Provincial hospital with 3rd level services in Copperbelt Province .
Other countries in this region with large numbers of hospitals include Democratic Republic of Congo (435), Kenya (399) and South Africa (337). [ 1 ] The following list shows links to Lists of healthcare and hospital articles where they exist in Wikipedia and categories for hospitals in sovereign states in Africa.
[141] [142] Among these 882 of these hospitals are government owned and 1509 are private hospitals. According to the Worldbank data in 2012, there are 0.2 physicians per 1,000 people, with 1.2 Nurses and Midwives per 1,000 people in Indonesia. [142]