| Martha Sommers
Embangweni Hospital
PO Box 7
Embangweni
Malawi
Email: Martha Sommers
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Martha Sommers is a medical officer at Embangweni Hospital in
Embangweni, Malawi. She is under appointment to minister with
the Synod of Livingstonia. She has been under appointment as a
PC(USA) mission co-worker since 1997.
Martha is the only long-term doctor at the Embangweni Hospital,
which serves a large rural area in a country where 25 percent
of the population is HIV positive and one in four children don’t
live to see their fifth birthday. Despite these dismal data, Martha
says that Embangweni is known for its quality care and growing
community health work.
Martha worked as a long-term volunteer for the PC(USA) in Embangweni
from 1997 to 2000 and as a mission co-worker at Embangweni and
Ekwendeni from 2001 to 2004. "I’ve grown so much by
journeying with Malawian friends," says Martha, "and
thank God for how they have picked me up when I have tripped,
made sure I was not alone with illness, and taught me to enter
into grief and grab joy."
Martha also served as a volunteer doctor in Chogoria, Kenya,
at the Chogoria Mission Hospital from September 1991 to June 1992.
In between volunteer service, she worked in family practice at
Grantsburg and Webster Clinics and Burnett Medical Center in Grantsburg
and Webster, Wisconsin. There, she worked in the areas of maternity,
inpatient, outpatient, and emergency-room service. |
