Clinical Service

The BMP offers patient care services including malaria blood films and anemia diagnosis for children admitted to QECH and on an outpatient basis. The research ward provides clinic care for critically ill children, even those not involved in research studies, and physician staff at the BMP provides clinical care in under resourced departments in QECH.

As a component of the cerebral malaria studies, the BMP has financed, installed and continues to support the first magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) center in Malawi which is an invaluable clinical resource for all the departments at QECH. At Ndirande Health Center, BMP introduced HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing.

The operation of this program has been transferred to the government health staff to increase local healthcare capacity, but the BMP continues to provide clinical space for this program and the antiretroviral clinic. All of these clinical services allow for higher quality and efficient clinical care the hospital, improving the health of the community.