Kamuzu Central Hospital

Kamuzu Central Hospital is a teritary referral hospital in the Lilongwe, Malawi. It is estimated to have 600-1,000 beds, though the true amount of patients always exceeds the amount of beds. It serves approximately 5 million people. It has a partnership with the University of North Carolina in the United States [1] and a partnership project, called MAGNET [2] (Malawi German Networking for Capacity Building in Treatment, Training and Research at Kamuzu Central Hospital), with the Institute of Public Health [3] of the University Hospital Heidelberg in Germany, the University Hospital Cologne and the University Hospital Bonn. [4] [5]
In 2012, President Bingu wa Mutharika was admitted to Kamuzu Central Hospital and was diagnosed with cardiac arrest.[6]
Since 2013 Dr. Jonathan Ngoma [7] is the hospital director of the Kamuzu Central Hospital.

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Coordinates: 13°58′38.7″S 33°47′8.7″E / 13.977417°S 33.785750°E / -13.977417; 33.785750

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