The Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital Paediatric Department sees the sickest children in Southern Malawi. Give the children who enter the doors the highest chance of survival through upgrading the facilities and equipment that dedicated staff use every day.

As an experienced paeds A&E nurse, Ethel has seen children and their caretakers at their very worst. She knows the mothers who come to her are often terrified, tired, confused. She sometimes bears the brunt of misplaced anger, but she knows she might feel the same if it was her child. She knows that, as much as her job is to provide excellent clinical care, she must also be a strong, steady, reassuring presence to the children and families who walk through the A&E doors.  

As Ethel and her colleagues work, a parent named Esther waits with her young son to be seen. Before long, she hears an unmistakable wailing that tells her a child has passed. For 30 minutes, she can't escape the sound and then looks up to see the family filing past with a too-small, too-still bundle strapped to an uncle's back. Of course, she doesn't begrudge them their mourning in the same space where she waits there is simply no room to grieve as the family waits to be brought to the mortuary. She tries not to stare.

The nurses and clinicians of Queens have worked for years in the current facilities, dreaming of what they could create to provide dignified, well-equipped spaces for their patients.

Ethel and her co-workers know what is required to to reduce the unnecessary suffering for those families who lose their child too soon. They dream of being able to give these sick children the level of care that they deserve. Now you can help them achieve these dreams.

Consider giving at one of the levels listed below and know that nearly 100% of your gift will go directly to the care of these sick children, so that we can .

£50 provides a nebuliser machine to treat patients with asthma 

£300 provides a procedure trolley to perform minor operations such as suturing

£750 provides an infusion pump for a patient requiring fluid resuscitation

£2000 provides one patient monitor to

£5000 provides one resuscitation bed to enable adequate resuscitation to sick children

£7500 provides a defibrillator to treat children with abnormal heart rhythms or in cardiac arrest

£50,000 provides a portable x-ray machine so sick children do not have to be transferred to the radiology department.