Every Donation Counts

Below is a list of accomplishments that we have made, most of which have been with your donations, and a list of aspirations:

2020:

Building a new Stabilization and Intensive Care building

2021:

Building a building with 4 isolation rooms and rooms with 6 beds for our psychiatric patients

Installing quality solar power throughout the hospital via a grant from the Italian Bishop’s Conference

Building a protective fence around the 25 solar panels

Building a shed so that the Operating Room sterilization process, using a pressure cooker, is protected during the rain

The purchase of 45 mattresses and quality plastic to cover them with.

Multiple repairs to the storehouse building used by the hospital and the health district for medications, vaccines, etc.

The purchase of new tires for the vehicle that transports materials and medications from the river to the hospital

Contributing to our Social Services Department, including helping Sr. Anna build this building to raise pigs and chickens, which will help with the meals prepared daily

The hospital received the donation of a new Siemens P500 ultrasound machine.

2022:

The construction of a new Emergency Room and Administrative Office building.

The participation in a campaign sponsored by JADD Africa to operate on 100 women for free, for complications related to childbirth – bladder fistulas, uterine prolapse, cystoceles.

The hospital received a donation of a Butterfly portable ultrasound.

Enlargement of the pavilion for pediatrics, to provide needed space for patients and families to sit outside, protected from the sun during the daytime.

Arranging a new conference room in the old Emergency Room building.

Paying for the operation in Kinshasa for a 13-year-old girl from a remote village, born with macroglossia (a tongue too long for her mouth.)

2023

The installation of a tile floor in our Stabilization and Intensive Care building

Repairing the road from the river, up a big hill towards the hospital, which we use to transport medications and supplies.

The construction of an addition to our surgical department which will enable us to have more space between beds and to separate patients with dirty wounds from those with clean wounds. (Currently it is used for Internal Medicine patients during the construction of the new building.)

The beginning of the construction of a new Internal Medicine building – with the help of a project with the Italian Bishop’s Conference.

2024

We continue the construction of the new Internal Medicine building

The construction of a house closer to the hospital for one of our doctors (for reasons of service and security while on call at night).

We completed paying for nursing school for a young man whose parents are deceased.

Because salaries are very low, we started a project of autofinancing for our employees. A motor and pirogue (the long narrow boats that are used here) have been purchased and they will start trips to Mbandaka, etc.

Ongoing:

Helping families who lacked the ability to pay for their medical care and other people in dire need.

Aspirations:

A building to house our four medical residents closer to the hospital.

A new pediatric building

A new OB/GYN building

To eventually computerize the hospital’s Pharmacy and Accounts Department

To paint the hospital