Communities

Mbingo, Cameroon

African Mission Healthcare partners with Mbingo Baptist Hospital in Mbingo, Cameroon in Central Africa. Cameroon is known for its linguistic and ethnic diversity, with over 250 different ethnic groups and two official languages, French and English. Before unification in 1961, northern regions had been British colonies, while the southern regions, including the capital and port cities, were French. This division has created repeated conflicts, impacting the stability and safety in the north.

Mbingo Baptist Hospital

Mbingo Baptist Hospital is the flagship referral hospital of the Cameroon Baptist Convention, which operates nine hospitals. Mbingo offers a wide array of quality services and training programs, including residencies in internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, and surgery (under the Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons).

African Mission Healthcare’s relationship with Mbingo Hospital dates to 2011. The partnership deepened in 2022 when Mbingo joined the Mission Hospital Teaching Network as a mentor facility. This partnership also includes the Baptist Institute of Health Sciences located in Mbingo. In 2023, Dr. Francis Kouya, whose oncology training was sponsored by African Mission Healthcare, was awarded the Gerson L’Chaim Prize for Outstanding Christian Healthcare Missionary Service. This $500,000 award is supporting the development of a national cancer treatment center of excellence.

Patient visits made possible by supporting specialist training

General surgical resident trained

Oncology specialist trained

Treating Patients Today

How African Mission Healthcare is helping treat patients in Cameroon:

Updated and equipped the hospital laboratory and pathology department.
Provided support for the hospital’s chemotherapy services.

Training Health Workers for Tomorrow

How African Mission Healthcare is helping train health workers in Cameroon:

Built multiple housing blocks for faculty and trainees.
Constructed a modern medical education building at the Baptist Institute of Health Sciences.
Trained a medical physicist and two radiotherapists to provide radiation therapy to cancer victims.
Contributed to the training of 14 surgeons, 16 internal medicine doctors, and 59 other healthcare professionals.

Mbingo medical education building under construction

Transforming Hospitals for the Future

How African Mission Healthcare is helping transform Mbingo Baptist Hospital:

Provided a long-term residence for patients undergoing radiation and/or chemotherapy.

Every community is unique.

We know each community we serve has its own culture and context, and the people there have unique needs. Therefore, we come alongside established institutions already immersed in local communities, rolling up our sleeves to help transform medical care for the long-term.

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