So many of our partners, assisted by your regular support, are busy improving the quality of their buildings in their hospitals, and with the help of a generous grant from ECHO we are supporting St Matthieu Hospital in Bukavu rebuild the maternity unit. The old one was 20 years old and built on a small budget at the time, and was overcrowded, and had been poorly extended right up to a wall that held in a muddy bank and was very damp and unsafe:
The hope is that the new building will look more like this (notice the retaining wall that is needed to the left):
And in Bunia at Kindia Health Centre your support of Semiliki has enable us to finance the construction of a new dental unit and an open sided room for vaccination and health promotion
The current space is so overcrowded the new units will also help reduce overcrowding at the current reception area.
In Kamango, Junior Ngozi and team have decided the use the regular tranche we send to build a new laboratory for Kamango hospital. The hospital is close to the Semiliki river which forms the border with Uganda but the region has been very dangerous, with regular attacks by rebels and the community have spent much of the past 3 years displaced in Uganda. So it is good to see them back and building for the future.
Thanks to all our regular supporters for enabling us to helping so many building projects. Next time we’ll update you on our appeal to build a new operating theatre at Masiki Hospital, Butembo.
