The second largest country of Africa, full of paradoxes. On one hand, it is rich in natural resources (including cobalt, copper, coltan, crude oil, diamonds, gold); on the other hand, its inhabitants are among the poorest in the world. For decades, the DRC has been suffering from prolonged conflicts that have led to one of the most severe humanitarian crises in the world.
In the village of Ntamugenga in the province of Northern Kivu, we support a hospital. For years, this region has been particularly dangerous: bandits, rebellions, social unrest and a constant threat of a war. The number of patients is growing constantly.
For tens of thousands of people, we are the only health care institution in the radius of several dozen kilometers (patients are carried all the way here even from Uganda).
Local bandits and rebels take advantage of the situation in Congo (DRC). It is the poorest and the helpless – as usually – who suffer the most. Thanks to you, they have somewhere to hide, thanks to you we can treat and feed them.
The hospital is managed by Polish Sisters of Angels. It seems they don’t know the word “hopelessness”, even though they are very well familiar with the rumble of exploding mortars.
As hard as it is to believe, in this small village in the mountains, where you can only get if you have a four-wheel drive car, a bunch of experts have met, who not only save lives, but serve as an example to others, showing them that hope dies last. The hospital is their entire life.
We have 72 beds at the hospital. Every year, we provide around 15 000 outpatient visits, 4 000 hospitalizations, over 1000 labors (including 1/3 Caesarean sections), treatment of 8 000 patients with malaria, 700 blood transfusions. Every year, these make up around 21 300 medical procedures.
We pay salaries to the personnel, we buy therapeutic milk, medications, equipment. All this is taking place under conditions that European doctors would find hard to imagine. Every day, we save tens of lives.
02.10.2018
Tatiana is a happy mother of three children: 12-year-old Alina, 10-year-old Christina and little Amos. She lives with her husband in Bugina, about a two-hour walk from Ntamugenga. Like most residents of the surrounding villages, the family lives off a small field, located far away. Every day is the same: a two hour walk to […]
17.05.2019
According to the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), the Ebola epidemic that has been spreading for months in this part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s North Kivu Province, where one of our hospitals is located, cannot be stopped. More than 1,700 people have already been infected, 1,100 of which have died. […]
04.07.2019
Esperence means hope. It is also the name of this two-year-old girl, who needs hope more than anything else. She was born in the midst of turmoil. Neither the government nor her parents, who were constantly arguing among themselves,were able to protect her. In the end, her parents parted ways. Cutting himself off from his […]
