Tour de Mbingo Hospital, Part 1

Here's a few sites you may see around Mbingo if you come for a visit. Sorry this isn't a comprehensive tour, but hopefully you can get a feel of the hospital.

The latest theme around Mbingo: construction. This will be our new laboratory.

Here's our operating room. In Cameroon it's called the 'theater'.

In the back of the hospital buildings, there is space for the patients caregivers to cook, wash clothes, and sleep. Every patient admitted to the hospital must have a caregiver. In the US, the hospitals serve you food, clean you, etc. In the developing world, when you are admitted to a hospital, you need to provide those services yourself since the resources are so limited. The foam mats you see to the left is where some caregivers have staked out a place to sleep at night.

I could write awhile about the identity of the hospital, what makes its heart beat, and what it stands for. But this mission statement posted in the administration building pretty much sums it up.

Here's the helicopter landing pad with a recently rescued sick person.

If you go up to the hospital on Saturday, you may even see a little nurse running around!