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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.

Résumé 2023:

This medical report talks about a well-known missionary-based hospital having over 209395 (upgraded population estimate) inhabitants in its catchment area of Kitutu Health Zone.

This rural hospital of over 100 beds offers the complementary health care activities’ package. The package includes outpatient, inpatients (gynecology, surgery, internal medicines and pediatrics), laboratory, radiology, administration, engineering…services.

This year, we sustained the ready registered the growth trend of patient accessibility, bed occupancy rate and cure rate despite the reduced total incomes.

We cared for good collaboration with our partners (Filadelfia & Government…), to vulnerable patient up to 10% loss of financial effort.

We call for urgent support in the following listed areas: (1) Transportation means (even a second hand bus of 38 seats), (2) Career development and staff accommodation, (3) Metallic standard beds mandatory by the government, (4) Poverty related disabilities (cataract blindness, flat/clubbed feet children, malnourished…) funding, (5) Adolescent motherhood challenges and (6) Pilot health care assurance for rural community into a health mutual organization.

Résumé 2022:

The Kitutu-Nyamibungu Referral Hospital is a CELPA missionary-based project which aims to transfer the quality of care to the rural community with the vision of becoming the leader of quality of care and research in rural health zones. The hospital had 203098 (upgraded population estimate) inhabitants in its catchment area.

The most common diseases are malaria, pneumonia and emerging non communicable diseases as renal and hearth diseases, diabetes, teen delivery complicated labor and poor abandoned elderly as well as mal nourished children. Throughout the centenary year (2022) we noted the sustained trend of increased patient accessibility, maintained bed occupancy rate beyond the threshold, increased the total income, sustained good collaboration with in and outside partners.

We celebrated the centenary together with the CELPA local church and receive the visiting team from the Norwegian mother church (NPM leadership). There was evidenced that equipment investment contributed to boost the local incomes despite its insufficiency to cover solely the hospital total expenses.

The Hospital Management team was acknowledged by the National Church leadership to supervise the quality of care in Shabunda and Mwenga territory within CELPA. This increased our catchment area to oven a million inhabitant of Urega land.