Steve and Alace Straw and their family are in Gabon as missionaries with Air Calvary. They are also with IFAP, the International Fellowship of Alliance Professionals. They have come to open the first ever Air Ambulance service to the Bongolo Hospital. They live in Libreville, capital city of Gabon. Steve wrote that over the past […]
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In 1994, a dream was launched of training Gabonese surgeons and that dream triggered the conversations that led to the birth of PAACS. In 2009 it came true! Dr. Simplice TCHOBA with his wife Neni, a dentist, and one child arrived at Bongolo Hospital as a PAACS resident. Both trained in Moscow and were fluent
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On June 13 the Nursing students met at the school at 9am for their last day of their second year of classes. After cleaning the school classrooms and office everyone sat around in a circle and had a sandwich lunch. Songs were sung then came some testimonies of how God had helped them during the
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Mid afternoon on Friday January 17th there was a city power outage at the Bongolo Hospital and Station. The emergency generator was started. Dr. Zach O’Connor went frequently to see if the city power was on so he could switch the hospital back to it and turn off the generator. About 7pm the city plant
Another new building is going up at the Hospital. It will be an Outpatient Medical Clinic for doctors and nurses who consult adult patients. The original building where they consulted was very old and was torn down. They have been working out of a temporary building until this new building is completed. It is being
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PAACS held its 9th graduation ceremony and celebration at Bongolo Hospital on July 28 for Dr.Philadelphie Dembele (Mali) and Dr. Ruffin Loua (Guinea-Conakry), the 9th and 10th graduates from Bongolo (27th and 28th from PAACS). During the same ceremony, Bongolo Hospital’s 3-year ophthalmology training program (POB) graduated its first ophthalmology resident, Dr. Elisee Baroua, from
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n May the old Emergency Room was emptied out as everything was moved over to the new Emergency Department. Here are some photos, the photo to the left is of the old “ER” and the other photos of the new “ED”:
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One room in a small hotel in Lebamba recently caught fire. Paul Davis was alerted to the fire by cellphone and he and a small crew took off to the other side of Lebamba with the newly acquired Bongolo Hospital Fire Truck. The road between the hospital and the main part of town is full
The Bongolo Nursing School will hold entrance exams on August 4, 2012. The same exam will be held both at the Nursing School in Lebamba and also in Libreville on the same day. Pray for the students as they take the exam. After the exam pray for wisdom in deciding which of the students should
After witnessing a fire in a Bongolo Hospital warehouse two years ago, Missionary Joanna Thelander’s visiting parents, Dave and Diann Conquest, returned home and purchased a Fire Truck on EBay for $3,175! With the help of the community in Pittsford, New York and local fire departments, the Conquests have collected over $20,000 in donations to
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