This hospital has received medicines from Inter Care in the past. We visited in September 2009 to renew our contacts there.
This is a relatively large hospital with a catchment of 70,000 managed by Dr Anneke Snoep and the Pharmacist, Alex Munthah. They have 175 beds covering male, female, paediatrics, maternity and private, (the funds from the private beds help to fund the treatment of patients who are unable to pay).
They do not receive medicines from any other donors and buy them all from the government when they can afford them. The hospital is an accredited ARV hospital and as such receives ARVs from the government; they can always use more if we have suitable ones.
The hospital has 200 staff including 40 nurses, 1 Doctor, 4 clinical officer and 2 medical assistants.
They have an outreach programme, which covers 12 villages. They perform minor surgical procedures and have a “kangaroo” premature baby unit.
When we discussed adding them to our PWA programme they were very keen to tell us what a difference it would make to their ability to treat their HIV/AIDs patients.