Soche Adventist Clinic

Soche Adventist Clinic is a medical clinic in Soche, south of central Blantyre, Malawi. The Ministry of Health's national facility registry lists it as Soche SDA, with the common name Soche SDA Clinic, in Blantyre District. The registry records the clinic as functional and registered, under registration number MCM/CHAM/HC/18, and classes its ownership as private. Its entry lists services including: - family planning, including pills, injectables, implants, condoms and emergency contraception - childhood immunisation and growth monitoring - HIV testing, antiretroviral therapy and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) - tuberculosis treatment - malaria rapid testing and treatment, and rapid syphilis testing - nutrition services, including management of malnutrition The initials SDA stand for Seventh-day Adventist. The Seventh-day Adventist Church is a Protestant denomination that keeps Saturday as its Sabbath; Adventists made up 9.4 per cent of Malawi's population at the 2018 census. Soche lies below Mount Soche, one of the hills that surround Blantyre. The city, founded in 1876 through the missionary work of the Church of Scotland, is the capital of the Southern Region and Malawi's centre of finance and commerce, with 800,264 residents at the 2018 census. Consultation fees and appointment arrangements have not been published online, and phoning ahead before travelling is advisable.

52RC+925, Blantyre, Malawi
Blantyre

15°48′33″S 35°1′12″E