TNM Chief Officer (Consumer Services) Daniel Makata said the equipment is a fulfillment of TNM Mpamba’s pledge to give back to community proceeds from the mobile money business.

The Chief Consumer Services Officer said TNM Mpamba is committed to apply mobile telecoms and ICT innovations as a catalyst for economic development in Malawi and through partnerships with communities.

Makata said TNM appreciates the challenges that St John’s Hospital, one of the country’s old health facilities experiences to cope with increasing demands for health care from the Northern region population.

“Most of the facilities here have deteriorated with time and require replacing, upgrading or declaring obsolete. Unfortunately, the rising cost of healthcare has far outstripped revenue the hospital generates at any given time. This situation does not bode well for St John’s which caters for many low-income people in Mzuzu and surrounding districts, hence this intervention from TNM Mpamba,” he said.

The K6 million has gone towards acquisition of essential medical equipment such as resuscitators, wheel chairs, autoclave, nebulizers and oxygen concentrators.

Other health facilities that have benefitted from the Mpamba Trust Fund include Mulanje Mission Hospital, Majete Health Centre in Chikwawa, Kamuzu Central Hospital High Dependency Children’s Burns Unit, Ntchisi District Hospital, Magamba Health Centre in Machinga and Malawi Against Physical Disability’s Kachere Rehabilitation Centre among many.