Dr. Warren and Dr. Lindsey Cooper

BIO

Dr. Warren and Dr. Lindsey Cooper serve as missionary physicians with CHSC in D.R. Congo. Their Mission is to serve the people of Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo through healthcare missions at Centre Medicale Evangelique-Nyankunde and help them to know Jesus. Lindsey and Warren Cooper moved to Nyankunde in 2013 to participate in the renovation of surgical care through a new facility and in healthcare teaching. Warren spends much of his time training/teaching the residents and young physicians. Lindsey is a pediatrician with experience in intensive care. She focuses on working with children who suffer from malnutrition, complications of heart disease, and works to improve overall nursing care. Nyankunde Hospital serves a population ravaged by war, poverty, and displacement, with the hospital itself having experienced much bloodshed. They hope that their presence offers hope to the people for a brighter future and belief that God can make all things new.

Donations can be sent by mail to: Christian Health Service Corps PO Box 132 Fruitvale, TX 75127

Medical Imaging and the gap between the theory and practice

How do we teach people how to see, how to interpret the images, make clinical correlations, and use them to improve medical care?

Love, that’s what it’s all about

Medicine looks different here in the D. R. Congo compared to the USA.

Learning from a little girl

Some of you have followed the story of my 5-year old patient Jenina, a little girl with nephrotic syndrome (protein losing urinary disease) who has been in the hospital since January. Young Jenina went home today!

Pole pole, slowly slowly

The hardest moments were when the mother had to be separated from her child. At one point she had to say “goodbye” to his physical body and I could just feel her pain…

Broken Machines and RAIN

Warren has been operating on machines more than people lately…

Pure Joy

Today I had a feeling of pure joy. Sometimes it feels like God is reaching down and giving you a blessing…

It’s not Amazon Prime!

…so we wait for a drug which has to make quite a journey…

Emergency Field Hospital – Iraq

Practicing medicine in any missionary environment is challenging. But what about when the environment is an Emergency Field Hospital in Iraq? And your patient has pieces of UXO (unexploded ordinance) in his chest…

Starting off the New Year

We had a very emotional admission to our malnutrition program this week. This year we had two deaths in one family from malnutrition, Francine and Moise. After paying a home visit to this family, a 10year old hungry child was found. On the home visit, our nutritionist and community advocate

News and Raising a Toddler

News from Warren in Iraq Warren is currently in Iraq assisting with the Samaritan’s Purse field hospital for the next few weeks. They are receiving wounded civilians leaving the city of Mosul as the city is slowly liberated by Iraqi troups. He wants to inform friends and family that the

123

BIO