Rio da Huila Hospital is 35 km from Lubango, the capital of the Huila Province. It is a rural general hospital of 10 beds, including ophthalmology and dentistry services, plus a 48 bed Tuberculosis Ward and a Community Health Program. It is a wholistic medical outreach to the Ovamwila people, mostly very poor, dependent on the local weather to be favourable to grow enough corn, millet and beans for the year. The Hospital team shares the Good News of God's love through medical care, dentistry, evangelistic outreach and prayer. The Ovamuila are coming to the Lord, which is very exciting. The Ovamuila believers themselves are sharing Jesus reaching out to villagers far from the main roads. Those are the very ones who also need access to community health care. Come and join us share the love of God. He is our Healer.
Rio da Huila Hospital offers electives for medical students which will include participation in ambulatory consultations, laboratory work and community health mobile clinics. Knowledge of Portuguese is beneficial. A good grasp of Italian, Spanish or French helps in bridging to Portuguese.
Banso Baptist Hospital is the oldest and second largest hospital of the Cameroon Baptist Convention. The CBCHS provides holistic healthcare services, integrating physical and spiritual care, including preventive, curative and rehabilitative medicine. Special services and programs include the HIV/AIDS Care and Prevention Program, central pharmacy, Private Training School for Health Personnel, Life Abundant Primary Health Care, Maternal-Child Health, technical services department (building projects), health care technology unit, chaplaincy services, residency programs in surgery and internal medicine and Services for People with Disabilities. Banso Baptist Hospital is located in the Northwest Region (province) of Cameroon. It is a 315 bed facility which provides services to over 94,000 outpatients and 8,000 in-patients annually. English, French and Pidgin English are the primary languages spoken at the hospital. Interpreters are available for patient interaction.
They have a 3-year nurse training program so are always looking for teachers who could do block teaching in French.
New Sight is an international charity working in the town of Ouesso in the Republic of Congo. The charity is registered in the U.K. and in Hong Kong. It previously established a non profit eye clinic based at Pioneer Christian Hospital in another part of the country and was invited by the local authorities to begin a new project in Ouesso. Ouesso is the regional capital of La Sangha region in Congo. It is a strategic location as it is accessible to the whole country as well as to neighbouring Cameroon and Central African Republic.
New Sight has its own plot of land in Ouesso and is preparing the construction of a purpose-built eye hospital. In the meantime, the charity runs an eye clinic in the town to help patients from across the region and country, treating around 200 patients per month. Alongside the clinic, the charity runs a nursing school where local people are trained to provide staffing for the clinic and future hospital. We are also passionate about community health education and screening. The pioneering New Sight team members come from different cultures and backgrounds, and work together to serve our community with roles from administration, engineering, medical to community outreach.
Social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram): @newsightcongo
YouTube: New Sight Eye Care
Fistula Foundation trains surgeons and funds operations to repair obstetric fistula, a devastating injury caused by difficult childbirth that renders the woman incontinent. Obstetric fistula affects the poorest women in the poorest parts of the developing world. More than 75 percent of women who suffer from fistula have endured labor that lasted three days or longer, usually with loss of the baby. Fistula can only be cured with surgery, and without proper treatment, women often find it difficult to reintegrate into their communities, including facing ostracism by their families.
Began in 1998 - marks its 18 years in 2016. The Main hospital is located along the scenic Rift -Valley escapement at Kijabe town four kilometers off Nairobi - Naivasha Road and Nairobi branch clinic is located in the Westlands Nairobi West Point building at the 4th floor, off parklands road Mpaka road.
The Hospital provides care for over 9400 children a year and performs over 4500 surgeries each year. It's the first of its kind in Kenya, the first hospital to specialize in one medical specialty in Kenya. AIC CURE International hospital uses mobile clinic model whereby it seeks to reduce number of days spend at the hospital by clucking patient on mobile clinic sites and on bringing patient to the main hospital for corrective surgeries and follow-up clinic.
AIC CURE International hospital in Kijabe aims to provide treatment at a world standard level with the latest technology and equipment.
The hospital has partnered with Kenai Spine Centre from USA, who bring spine specialists twice or thrice a year to do complex surgeries onsite. The hospital has also partnered with Michigan University where our doctors rotate for orthopedic experiences.
The hospital provides care for children suffering from conditions like clubfoot, cleft lip and cleft palate, curvature of the spine and disabilities stemming from polio, cerebral palsy, burn contractures and other congenital abnormalities. AIC CURE International hospital oversees the largest clubfoot programme in Eastern Africa and provide prosthesis & orthotics appliances beyond the Eastern Africa region. The hospital does Adult services which include Total knee replacement, Total Hip Replacement, Spine surgeries,pain management,sports Medicine,prosthesis and orthotics.
Mission Africa partner with the Presbyterian Church in East Africa, Kikuyu Hospital. The general hospital has four main wards: male, female, paediatric, and maternity. In- patient numbers are usually around 100. Services also include: outpatients, maternal and child health, casualty (emergency room), a busy operating theatre, dental unit and an ART programme (dealing with HIV/AIDS). The hospital also has an Eye Unit, which provides highly specialised ophthalmic care throughout East Africa. An orthopaedic rehabilitation unit with an active surgical programme, is also on site.
For more information email: info@missionafrica.org.uk
Holley Memorial Hospital Ochadamu is owned and operated by the United Evangelical Church, a local Nigerian Church. The facility is located in Idah, Kogi State, in central Nigeria. It is a medium sized hospital providing specialist services in surgery, maternity and obstetrics, orthopaedics, ophthalmics and caring for an increasing number suffering from TB and HIV/AIDS. The hospital also caters for leprosy patients and the outpatients department cares for a growing population.
For more information email: info@missionafrica.org.uk
We welcome interest from clinicians who would like to give a few hours of their time in the UK to make short teaching videos as much of our training is via e-learning.
Our mission is to use medicine to open doors for direct evangelism in areas where the Gospel is either unheard or corrupted with unbiblical doctrine ( traditional beliefs/prosperity gospel teaching etc).
The Ophthalmology department is well known in the region and attracts patients from neighbouring countries. This unit facilitates the elective administration, yet students may rotate in the disciplines of their choice. The weekly student academic meeting focuses on the cultural context of Medicine. Hospital staff are from all denominations and students will experience faith in action in the practice of medicine. This is a friendly and caring hospital community, set in a malaria-free and safe area, where English is spoken.
Accommodation is either in the hospital or at a nearby farm. Opportunities for Christian outreach are extensive, as this also serves as a base for several Christian NGO's. Students may benefit from extra-curricular involvement in these NGO's: Development work, Women's projects, Agriculture and Orphan care. Students are invited to fellowship with Christian clinicians and families at the weekly evangelical bible study, in a home. For those not exploring the countryside on weekends, there's a large choice of churches to attend. With up to 5 Medical students at a time, both local (South African) and International, there is almost always good company!
Medical students of any clinical stage are welcome to apply for electives of at least 4 weeks, but senior students are given first option. Consideration is also given to senior Nursing and Para-Medical students. Pre-clinical students who are passionate about rural medicine may apply. Research or Audit projects are encouraged.
Kisiizi runs the oldest community health insurance scheme in Uganda and currently has over 38,000 beneficiaries in over 200 community groups. Kisiizi is the only hospital in Uganda in the first wave of the WHO African Partnerships for Patient Safety. Unusually Kisiizi provides in-patient mental health services.