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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 Ministry of Community Development, Mother and Child was created following the shift in government policy in 2013 that brought about streamlining of the Ministry of Health, thus re-aligning of Primary Health care Services; all General hospitals, health centers and health posts fall under this ministry. [6]
Ministries of health in several sub-Saharan African countries, including Zambia, Uganda, and South African, were reported to have begun planning health system reform including hospital accreditation before 2002. However, most hospitals in Africa are administered by local health ministries or missionary organizations without accreditation programs.
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).
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 .
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]
It started in 1958 as Llewlyn Hospital, named after Lord Llewelyn, one of the Governors in Northern Rhodesia. It was changed to Kitwe Central Hospital in 1964 following independence. It is the third level referral hospital serving the second largest populated city in Zambia. It has 664 bed capacity and with daily patient traffic of up to 1,300.