Kayambi health Centre is situated in the north of Zambia. It is in a very remote area with no electricity or water and has an official catchment of 13,600, however people still frequent from outside the area. The health centre is currently run by Sister Clementina, who is quite prepared to take on the government on issues such as the improvement of the roads and  the lack of electricity in the area. However, she is due to retire shortly. The health centre has its own solar panels which supply enough electricity for most of their daily needs, but not at night. The health centre has a small farm attached to it and grows most of its own grain.

There are 62 beds in 5 wards although they don't use 20 of them in the isolation ward as they cannot afford to run it. There is a pharmacist and there are 3 nurses (2 are midwifes) to cope with the workload which includes 10 outreach clinics as far as 80kms away.  The nearest referral hospital is in Kasama which is 150k away from Kyambi on roads that are impassable in the rainy season.

Inter Care visited in June 2011 and saw just how remote and needy the health centre is. Although they get medicines from the Government, these are often taken away if somewhere else has a greater need. They keep the supplies from Inter Care in a separate store room as they often need to go to them as they are desperately short of their own. We are grateful to Quorn Church for supporting this clinic.