A FORMER nurse from Malawi visited Coventry’s University Hospital on a mission to help solve the country’s healthcare crisis. Dorothy Ngoma is touring the country meeting health chiefs and politicians to raise awareness about the shortage of nurses and medical supplies in Malawi.As a 20 year-old trainee nurse during the 1970s Mrs Ngoma was left to care for more than 50 patients on the maternity wards, where up to 30 babies were born during each 14 hour shift. She often had to deliver the babies without the help of drugs or even gloves.So many nurses and doctors have been forced abroad by the appalling working conditions that staff shortages are now even worse. There are just 600 nurses to care for the 13 million people in Malawi - a country ravaged by HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. Read more