Banja La Mtsogolo (BLM) - Mangochi Clinic

Banja La Mtsogolo (BLM) - Mangochi Clinic is a medical clinic near the main market in Mangochi, Mangochi District, Malawi. It is one of the clinics of Banja La Mtsogolo, the Malawi programme of MSI Reproductive Choices. The Pharmacy and Medicines Regulatory Authority (PMRA) dispensing licence register lists it as "Mangochi BLM Clinic", near the main market, with the postal address Box 607, Mangochi. Its licence, number PMPB/DL/332, was registered on 11 December 2009; the PMPB prefix dates from the Pharmacy, Medicines and Poisons Board, the regulator that PMRA replaced. A dispensing licence covers the dispensing of medicines on a clinic's own premises. The same register lists BLM clinics in many other districts, among them Zomba, Balaka, Machinga, Blantyre, Kasungu and Karonga. Banja La Mtsogolo, Chichewa for "family of the future", was established in 1987. MSI Reproductive Choices, formerly Marie Stopes International, describes the programme as delivering care across 28 districts. The services MSI lists for it nationally include short- and long-acting contraception, permanent methods, post-abortion care, maternal and child health services, cervical cancer screening, and testing and treatment of sexually transmitted infections including HIV. That is the programme's national range rather than a list for this clinic. Mangochi lies near the southern end of Lake Malawi, on the upper Shire River, about 190 km north-east of Blantyre. Founded in the 1890s and known in the colonial period as Fort Johnston, it is an agricultural and fishing centre where Yao is the main language, and it is home to the Lake Malawi Museum. The 2018 census counted 53,498 residents. The clinic has not published its opening hours, fees or the services offered at this site online; phoning ahead before travelling is advisable.

G798+RMV, Mangochi, Malawi
Mangochi

Near Main Market

14°28′49″S 35°16′0″E