Our mission is to provide maternal and child healthcare to the economically poor people of Malawi and Kenya, with particular reference to HIV treatment and care amongst the funding of other healthcare programmes.
In 2009, The Rose Project funded the new Bwaila Maternity Hospital. This hospital replaced a shed like structure which was built in 1939 - as a temporary structure to manage 4,000 annual births! Prior to its closure, the hospital was managing 11,000 annual births-
The new Bwaila Maternity hospital (the busiest maternity hospital in Lilongwe the capital of Malawi) is responsible for 14,000 births each year . The greatest challenge remains the acute shortage of skilled healthcare workers. There is only one full time obstetrician at the hospital and an acute shortage of fully qualified midwives. Many of the patients attending the hospital may have had only one antenatal visit, this lays the scene for the high level of complications seen at the hospital.
Mother to child HIV transmission during pregnancy is the second most common form of HIV transmission in Malawi and accounts for 30,000 babies being born HIV with the virus each year. Prevention of mother to child HIV transmission in pregnancy, is central to the care provided at Bwaila Maternity Hospital.
A number of international organisations have joined forces with The Rose Project in the past 2 years in an effort to improve both infant and maternal care at the hospital. These include Freedom from Fistula Foundation Scotland and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. Haukeland University Hospital Norway, has worked closely with The Rose Project since 2009 - through the provision of medical equipment and continue with their support in the area of IT.
In partnership with UNICEF, The Rose Project continues to fund Rachel Macleod, an experienced midwife to teach and deliver clinical care in the labour ward of the hospital. Below are some photographs taken by an Italian humanitarian worker who has worked at the hospital. The photographs were taken with the patients permission.
Bwaila Maternity Unit. Lilongwe, Malawi. Lilongwe, Malawi. August 2011
Attending the midwives morning meeting. Lilongwe, Malawi. August 2011
Rachel is mentoring the young midwives and nurses working in labour ward. Lilongwe, Malawi. August 2011
Assisting young girl during exams. Lilongwe, Malawi. August 2011
Happiness to succeed in reanimate a newborn. Lilongwe, Malawi. August 20
First Aid inside labour ward, when main theatre is not available. Lilongwe, Malawi. August 2011
The blackboard is constantly updated on women conditions in labour ward. Lilongwe, Malawi. August 2011
Rachel is reanimating a newborn. Lilongwe, Malawi. August 2011
The woman is bleeding and needs urgently blood transfusion. Lilongwe, Malawi. August 2011
A baby born already dead. Lilongwe, Malawi. August 2011
Rose Atieno was a 32 year old Kenyan woman who died in a rat infested hut in Nakuru. Rose was cared for by her 7 year old son, as both her husband and daughter Harriet were HIV positive. Harriet contracted the virus from Rose during pregnancy.
Health workers heading out to the rural clinics on motorbikes provided by The Rose Project. Read More....
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42nd President of the United States, speaking at an event in honour of Rose Atieno, the 16 millionth person to die of AIDS in Africa.
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