Malawi evangelical churches resist Kamuzu Central Hospital policy on prayers
Evangelical Association of Malawi (EAM) has reacted angrily to a new prayer policy at Kamuzu Central Hospital which now confines prayer time for patients on weekends and public holidays.
EAM secretary general Francis Mkandawire said prayers cannot be limited to specific time, saying patients need prayers constantly.
“What the hospital can do is to issue guidelines so that everyone wishing to conduct prayers in wards should abide by the guidelines instead of total banning of prayers during week days,” he said.
Mkandawire said his association would engage in dialogue with officials from the Kamuzu Central Hospital.
He said the hospital should have a code of conduct guiding how prayers can be conducted and those who violate it can be disciplined.
The new policy allows people and organisations to conduct the prayers from the hospital after obtaining written consent from management.
Hospital publicist Mable Nkhata said the policy is aimed at instilling discipline at the chaotic way of offering prayers to patients which she said disturbed administration of drugs to patients and disturbed serious and recupurating patients.
“We want order in the wards so that doctors and nurses can do their job peacefully and patients can have peace time,” she said.
Most times those offering prayers sing and preach on top of their voices disturbing the peace of patients. Interestingly, prayers are done in public hospitals only.
Christians! Your faith is a joke, your god is a joke, he is an embarrassment even to non believers. Take your primitive beliefs which clearly do work to witch doctors, that’s where you belong…..
Prayers are important for the sick in hospitals, but hospital guidelines need to be followed to avoid disturbances.
On the other hand, lets not forget that evil forces/satanic agents also have their way into hospitals hence fervent not “Noisy” prayers neutralize all demonic activities in the hospital.
MAy God Bless our hospital staff!
Some of these groupings like EAM need prayers and healing also. Jesus demonstrated that if you have faith even if you are at home the sick person will be healed where ever he is. Why misleading people as if the patients only be healed if you go and pray at the hospital. You behave like pharisees who wanted to show their righteousness in public. Some of your pastors are thieves and the take advantage of such chaotic gatherings where people are so desperate for their health conditions. And start selling anointed water, oil, sand, cloth etc to enrich themselves in the name of prayers.
EAM demonstrating in the streets against homosexuality, EAM says Malawi is a Christian country, EAM against hospital order and conduct, EAM e.t.c. This is really scarely, this EAM might transform into a Christian version of ISIS, Boko Haram e.t.c. They want to take over and rule the country based on their own beliefs and values. EAM be reminded this is a diverse and free country where everyone has their own beliefs and values. Know your boundaries!
KCN admin, have you forgeotten your role as a hospital? You treat but God heals. So don’t remove God in hospitals. This is satanic and God will punish you. Mukufunika kumulandira Yesu inuyo.
KCH admn, repent For u have done an abominable thing! We all need God more especially when we are sick. Think twice
How I wish the policy should apply to all public hospitals. Enafe zimatikwana tikakhala tikudikira abale athu. Bravo Kamuzu Central Hospital, don’t not backtrack
We serve an orderly God who know and hear prayers even from the heart. Shouting is a reminiscent of prophets of baa in the Bible. It does not take aloud prayer for God to intervene. And if the purpose is to evangelize then I’m afraid it is off track.
Remember also there is infection prevention rule in all hospitals which should be adhered to all the times. By insisting to holding prayers wiliy nilly would defeat the whole essence of admiting patients, you would be infecting pantients with new antigens or initiating cross infection. Follow the rules. Period.
Prayers are essential for spiritual nourishment, the sick require God’s intervention than any other person, imagine you are about to die at your sick bed and you need a priest, pastor etcto pray for you and is no where to be seen, how would you feel like?
I feel it’s high time we accept the reality, time should be allocated for prayers each and every day without disturbing the doctors and nurses noble duties
I dont like this practice of orgànizing uñrequested “prayers” for people who seem desperate and vulnerable. For example, patients, (assumption is that coz they are siçk they may die soon), travellers (the assumptioñ is they will get involveď in an accident), widows etc. Most of the times, so çalled noisy prayers añd dances are forceď on these people, ýes without their consent. No where iń the Bible do we fiñd Jesus organizing suçh noisy prayers for the siçk. He cured them so silently, most of the times telling ppo not to tell others about it. I personally dont like prayers imposed on others including piñnocent patients añd travellers nor do i like praýers màde just for people to know that ndiife anthu opemphera. Let everything happen decently and by aŕrangement. SAY NO TO NOISY “PRAYERS” IN HOSPITALS AND BUSES OR AROUND OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. SAY NO TO IMPOSED NOISE
zoona a drogba. kodi atamapemphera cotsitsa bwa. koma nfuuu wakewo ngati munthu adziipitsile nawo.
well done KCH
ganizo cabe eti- ma pente wo azikhala ndi nthumwi imodzi olo ziwili zoimila mpimgo wao okayendera odwala. ma chapleni ngati eti. komatu mwina aliyese amakokera kwake recruitment ya akhristu , colowa mchalici .amasiya ma contact number and b4 you know it after discharge zisembwereso. kkkkkkkkkk
malawi wavunda
Not correct prayers are done at Adventist and Mwaiwathu even other small clinics I prayed even at MASM and Mlambe please do not make sweeping statements. Guidelines are an answer to this do not remove God from Hospitals it is a fatal decision to take
KCH authorities please appreciate the good that God does everyday to the suffering in hospitals through His servants. The fact that some appear disorderly should not be the reason for issuing such unreasonable orders and policies, just like you do not stop the whole team of doctors and nurses from doing their called duties just because of some who do not follow your procedures. The same God who called you is the same one who called the preachers and teachers of the word of God, therefore do not stand in the way of the Word of God, only reason with the men and women of God in line with Scriptures. Do not use your professions to fight against God’s agenda. I beseech you by the mercies of God.
Mkuru, KCH does not prevent prayers in the hospital. What it has done is to put order into the system. If there is an emergency need for prayers, the patient is free to call his priest or pastor to pray for them. there is also an office for chaplain within the hospital. ngati mufuna kukopa wanthu pitani mmakwalala, mmimowa ndimmisika mukaawapeza anthu ofuna mapemphero anu mmenemo.
Awa ali mchipatalawa awa asiyeni mmanja mwmulungu alinawo ndintchito osawapatsa ziwanda iyayi
It is high time these churches realised that hospitals have their own operating procedures; just like the churches themselves. Would the evangelical churches allow hospital staff to talk about cholera or other diseases in their churches every day/time they wish? Why do they want to break or undermine other organisation’s way of conduct in the interest of their own? self-centered? Evangalise to the whole world. Why concentrate on the desperate conditions of the patients? Rules are rules! If you are not ready to follow KC hospital rules, open your own hospitals where you can spend all the time evangilising and not treating patients. Mind you, not all patients are for your evangelism.
Job well done. Even those who just come to visit single patient must do the same because they just pray for that particular individual. The hospital must have the charpel or create an area within the hospital. Still they need to book for it.
Since the reason is to give medical personnel time to administer drugs and for recupurating patients. Does shifting to weekends mean (that) these things do not happen?
Again the information that these prayers occur in public hospitals only is not accurate.
Well done KCH. I hope all hospitals will follow. Why should Christendom always disturb our peace? Eveeywhere we go is like a drinking place; in hospitals, in buses, behind our houses, at worķplaces, everywhere there is noise, why? I regard such as noises, not prayers. In hospitals, buses; these are public places, you people understand. It does not mean anyone in a hospital or in a bus is a member of christendom. In fact, sick people need more peace and quiteness If one needs prayers, he can request that as an individual and the “noise” should be confined strictly to his bed. And who else should ban these so called prayer noises in our buses? It annoys me to the bone. Malawians, jack up, this is a civilized country. Just imagine how annoying it becomes when even your little boy talks to you repeatedly when you are down with malaria. What more with the whole throng of noise makers in hospitals? Please, say NO to noises in hospitals and buses
EAM should understand th hospitals are not prayer houses but plases for medication. They cannot jyst be going vthere anytime and disturbing doctors nurses and patients . They should not use the God to defeat the policy. The policy is good for orderliness. EAM is senseless useless clueless and inconsiderate otherwise tge prayers should just be
banned oif they want not