The Yuka adventist Hospital is located in Yuka Village, which means "a resting place". The village is near to the town of Kalabo (aprox. 8 km).
This town of Kalabo (7800 hab) is located in the isolated Western Region of Zambia. The Yuka SDA Hospital in Kalabo is the most remote institution in the Eastern Africa Division. The nearest larger city of significance is Mongu.
Although Zambia lies in the tropics, its location on an elevated plateau ensures that the climate is seldom unpleasantly hot. There are three seasons, cool and dry from April to August, hot and dry from September to October and warm and wet from November to March. In this last season all the plain is covered by the flood produced by the waters coming from Angola, Congo and the Zambezi and Lewanika rivers.
The Institution was born in 1953. It is located 700km from the capital, Lusaka, and it's situated in a rural area which is very poor, surrounded by the Kalahari desert, which has a negative influence in the productivity of the soil.
As they are struggling against nature, they also face many diseases like Malaria, TB, HIV/AIDS, Malnutrition, Trichiasis, and other problems in the eyes like Cataracts,etc.
Most of the people take their daily baths at the river, where they get parasitic infections like Hook Worms, Schistosoma Mansoni, Phylarya, Necator Americano, Strongyloidis Stercholarys,etc.
The services offered at the hospital are:
- Antenatal Clinic
- Outpatient Clinic
- Pediatrics
- Clinical Laboratory
- Public Health Education
- Labor/Delivery
- Surgery
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedics
Yuka Adventist Hospital, P.O. Box 930098, Kalabo, Zambia
Email: yolyhel@gmail.com
10 comments:
Yuka is a wonderful hospital. The trees are beautiful when it rains. the most delicious avacadoes and mangoes are found on the campus. There are numerous cashew trees there also. I really enjoyed my years of living at Yuka as a missionary. I wonder if the leporsarium is still there.
I was living at Yuka for almost four years. It was a wonderful experience. With my husband, we gave as much as possible for the hospital people and services. We also enjoyed those years there.
The leprosarium is not longer working there. Apparently leper people is not very common there, or all are cured already. Some lepers came to ask for some help, and we assited them with clothes and food. They were so happy, and we too!!
I was born at Yuka Mission Hospital on November 24, 1969. Thanks for helping bring me into the world. Andrew Stronach.
I was born at Yuka Mission Hospital on November 24, 1969. Thanks for helping bring me into the world. Andrew Stronach.
Hey Andrew! It's amazing that you was born at Yuka Hospital. Have your parents been Doctors or nurses there at that time?
For us, to work at Yuka during a hard time, was a wornderful experience.
My late Dad taught at Lukona School in the 1930s, which is not very far from Yuka Hospital.
Keith Nalumango
Next time I visit this part of the world, I hope I'll be able to include Yuka Hospital on my itinerary. It was considered a main health center when I was growing up in the 50s.
I was a hospital chaplain at Yuma hospital in 1984, 1990, 1991.
Best place ever
My home town Born and bred
Laporsarium has been abolished
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