Kashikishi

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Kashikishi, also Kasnikishi or Kasikisi, is a place a few miles north of Nchelenge in Zambia in the province of Luapula, on the southeastern shore of Mwerusees. It is located 920 meters above the sea level.

Social

Kashikishi mainly because of his hospital, St. Paul's Mission Hospital, known, which is run by nuns of the Diocese of Mansa and with expert advice consistently supported since 1973 by a development association in Basel, Switzerland by the Canton Hospital. St. Paul's offers not only 140 beds, but also a sister training. There receives support in power, infrastructure, drugs bottlenecks, personnel problems and medical teaching from Basel. So it is in the district Nchelenge the main hospital and is responsible for the supply of the entire population of 150,000 people, though not for the people on the other side of the lake in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Economy

Kashikishi is next Nchelenge the most important fish market on Lake Mweru, which has to do with the asphalt road from here to the 500 kilometers away Copperbelt. The fund taxes on fish in both cities 80 % of the district budget ( in 2000 four million Kwacha ). The place has primary and secondary schools, a dirt-track, 1,000 -meter-long airstrip, banks and some stores.