Welcome to St. Albert’s Mission Hospital in Zimbabwe. Let us share our adventures with you. They can be exciting, touching, and at times heart rending, but when friends are around, burdens become light.
Elizabeth Tarira, MD, director
during a home visit by St. Albert’s home-based care team.
The women doctors of St. Albert's Mission Hospital need your help. They are struggling to care for the sick and injured who come to the hospital; provide counseling, testing and treatment to pregnant women and those with HIV/AIDS; maintain a home-based care program, provide school fees and sometimes food to orphans; train desperately needed nurses and raise crops to feed patients.
Their job is made frustratingly difficult because of Zimbabwe’s collapsing economy – inflation rates sometimes climb above 1,000 percent (the highest in the world). They face chronic shortages of fuel, electricity and water. The Zimbabwe government lacks hard currency, so even basic supplies and equipment are in short supply. Many medical specialists have fled the country, leaving them to care for patients they would normally refer to other physicians.
We have started this website to show you the work of these worthy doctors and to help them and the poor in this rural area of northern Zimbabwe overlooking the Zambezi Valley. Any contribution is appreciated.
Darrell E. Ward, a friend of St. Albert’s and website sponsor.
