[2] This is about 215 kilometres (134 mi), by road, north of Blantyre, the largest city in Malawi's Southern Region.

[3] This hospital is under the jurisdiction of the Lakeshore Health Department of the Diocese of Southern Malawi–Upper Shire, a component of the Church of the Province of Central Africa.

[1] St Martin’s caters to a population of approximately 40,000 people in Malindi and neighboring settlements.

In addition to the hospital facilities, a mobile medical unit is available to take services to needy, distant communities.

[1] By 2014, the bed capacity had increased to 50 and although there was no doctor, there were five capable clinical officers and a team of nurses and patient assistants, who kept the hospital in motion.