Zomba District Health Office

Zomba District Health Office is the government office that manages public health services across Zomba District, in Malawi's Southern Region. It stands on the grounds of Zomba Central Hospital in the city of Zomba. A district health office is an administrative body rather than a place for treatment. Headed by a District Health Officer and a district health management team, it plans and oversees the government health centres and health posts in its district and handles matters such as staffing, the supply of medicines, immunisation and other public health programmes, and the collection of health data. The Ministry of Health's Master Health Facility Registry lists the district's treatment facilities separately. They include Zomba Central Hospital, a government central hospital; Zomba District Hospital, a government district hospital whose common name in the registry is "Zomba DHO" and which the registry places about 2 km north-east of the central hospital; and the Zomba DHO Pharmacy, a government dispensary. Malawi's public health system is organised in three tiers: health posts, health centres and community hospitals at primary level, district hospitals at secondary level and central hospitals at tertiary level. Patients move up the tiers by referral. Zomba District lies north-east of Blantyre. The city of Zomba, below the Zomba Plateau, was the colonial capital and remained Malawi's capital until 1975, and it is home to the main campus of the University of Malawi. No telephone number, email address or office hours have been published for the office.

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Zomba

Zomba Central Hospital

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