Nkhatabay Hospital ventures into maize farming

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Nkhatabay District Hospital

Nkhatabay District Hospital seeks help as it has started growing maize on its 4.5 hectares of land in a bid to feed patients using its own resources, Malawi24 can confirm.

Nkhatabay District Hospital
Now a farm?;Nkhatabay hospital.

In an interview, Nkhatabay District Nursing officer, Boniface Ndovi said the facility plans to be cultivating maize on the field twice in a year to feed the hospital’s patients.

‘It is our own initiative but we are seeking help from well-wishers including the government. We have an arrangement with prison authorities here to provide manpower. As we speak, the maize is already grown and just awaits application of fertiliser. We plan to be cultivating twice in a year hence the need for a bore-hole,” said Ndovi.

Over the weekend, the District Health Officer (DHO) Dr Mkandawire had asked the minister of information Jappie Mhango to consider drilling a bore-hole and provide farm inputs to the facility.

Mkandawire made the plea when the information minister donated 100 bags of maize and 10 bags of beans to the hospital. During a similar function at Chitipa District Hospital, the information minister asked the Chitipa DHO and all other DHOs to emulate the example set by Nkhatabay District Hospital.