The equipment we need includes resuscitation beds, resuscitation trolleys, dressing trolleys, patient monitors, infusion pumps, a defibrillator, an ECG machine, a portable ultrasound machine, patient transfer trolleys, nebulisers…and the list could go on!
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Friends of Sick Children in Malawi (FOSCiM) is a uk registered charity, that for the past 15 years has been supporting a project based at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital, Blantyre, Malawi (QECH). That project is creating and developing free and sustainable specialist healthcare for the children of the nation of Malawi.
A better future for Malawi depends in part upon the health and wellbeing of the nation’s children. Half the population of Malawi is aged 18 years and under; in other words they are children. Life expectancy in Malawi is about an average 20 years lower than in the UK and many Malawians barely survive on less than the equivalent of £1 a day.
There is no primary healthcare in Malawi – i.e. no local General Practitioner surgeries, so hospitals and private clinics are the medical frontline. The public sector is severely resource constrained.
The overriding objective of Friends of Sick Children in Malawi is to improve the healthcare and wellbeing of children admitted to or seen and treated each year at the Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital (QECH), Blantyre, Malawi. We do that by raising funds for Friends of Sick Children (‘FOSC’), a Malawi children’s charity with the same objective. Through this website we aim to give a focus to the needs in Malawi, the funding we have raised and hope to continue to raise, and the current situation on the ground through the eyes and experiences of our colleagues in Malawi who work at the QECH and support the work of FOSC locally there.
Charity Commission number 1140578 Registered Office: c/o Squire Sanders (UK) LLP, Rutland House, 148 Edmund Street, Birmingham, B3 2JR
