Résumé June 2025:

The Nyamibungu Referral Hospital is a Norwegian missionary hospital providing health care to 230 thousand inhabitants of Kitutu Health Zone. The 100 beds rural hospital offers the complementary health care activities’ package.

The package includes outpatient, inpatients (gynecology, surgery, internal medicines and pediatrics), laboratory, radiology, administration and engineering services. This year 2025 is marked by the renewed open war stories in most eastern DR Congo as well as the South Kivu Province.

We provided care to 1429 patients (591 or 38,6% in admission) with a cure rate of 90%, death rate of 7% and bed occupancy rate of 72%. We are living in a militarized zone, most armed groups seeking care without payment while most population are jobless and bearing the burden of open conflict.

The hospital suffers shortage of medical supplies, unsafe personnel and uncertain future of donor’s funds while the engineering department called for solar system and x-ray machine maintenance.

The health care seeking behavior is declining, rebounding severe malnutrition among children as well as cases of rapes and gunshot wounds are common incident at acute care unit.

We are wondering about the hospital survival if emergency relieve won’t be possible within time (Pictures below).

Résumé 2024:

The Nyamibungu Referral Hospital is a missionary hospital having over 209395 (upgraded population estimate) inhabitants in its catchment area of Kitutu Health Zone. This rural hospital of 100 beds offers the complementary health care activities’ package.

The package includes outpatient, inpatients (gynecology, surgery, internal medicines and pediatrics), laboratory, radiology, administration and engineering services.

This year 2024, we provided care to 3161 patients (1221/38,6% in admission) mostly coming within our catchment area (96%) and all talked to a doctor within the 30 minutes at arrival.

The cure rate was acceptable (90,6%) and the death rate was 3,5% (no maternal death noted) with a bed occupancy rate of 73.5% and the average the cost of care was 27 USD per patient.

There was no staff turnover and the government promise to upgrade staffs’ wage is coming in drops.

The above described had been worsened with the conflicting context happening as we are writing this report but our building also needs a rehabilitation with iron sheets (below picture) as we are calling for emergency relieve supply by flight if possible.