Mulanje Nursing

Nestled at the foot of Mount Mulanje in Malawi, the Mulanje Mission College of Nursing and Midwifery has been rising to the challenge of educating nurses since the 1930’s. Nurses form the backbone of medical care in Malawi, providing nursing and midwife care in hospitals and community and rural health clinics.

Today over 400 students are enrolled in the three-year Nursing and Midwifery diploma program and the Community Midwifery Assistant certificate program at the school.

In May 2021, 128 students graduated after passing all their exams. The school’s average pass rate for national licensure exams is over 90%, so most of these new grads will go on to practice as nurses in Malawi.

The school is owned by the Central Church of Africa Presbyterian (CCAP), Blantyre Synod. Future plans call for converting the school to a College of Health Sciences under the Blantyre Synod University and offering additional degrees. The school is affiliated with the Mulanje Mission Hospital, also owned by the Blantyre Synod.

Student housing at Mulanje Mission College.

Nursing students gather outside Mulanje Mission Hospital.

Bertha is in her second year of study toward a three-year Nursing and Midwifery Technician diploma at Mulanje Mission College of Nursing. She will be working at one of the health facilities owned by the Central Church Africa Presbyterian, Blantyre Synod upon graduation. After losing her father while she was in her teens, Bertha and her sisters increasingly had to fend for themselves. Now, she says that she is working very hard so she will be able to help her family in the future.