Official handover of 500 miles’ Prosthetic and Orthotic Service in Lilongwe
11 April 2025
On 31st March 2025, 16 years after it first opened, 500 miles officially handed over its flagship Prosthetic and Orthotic Service in Lilongwe to the Malawi Ministry of Health (MoH) as a sustainable part of the country’s national health service – with a promise of substantial ongoing support.
On 31st March 2025, 16 years after it first opened, 500 miles officially handed over its flagship Prosthetic and Orthotic Service in Lilongwe to the Malawi Ministry of Health (MoH) as a sustainable part of the country’s national health service – with a promise of substantial ongoing support.
500 miles started its work in Malawi in a 90 sqm building made of 3 seagoing containers erected in the grounds of Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH), with a staff of two clinicians lent by the MoH from Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital - but the service has come a long way since then.
It expanded into a bigger kit building at KCH in September 2010, but in January 2024, the rehabilitation building at the Lilongwe Institute of Orthopaedics and Neurosurgery (LION) became its new, purpose- built, state of the art, spacious home where the service is now part of a comprehensive, integrated multi-disciplinary orthopaedic service.
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