March was International Women’s Month. To celebrate here in Kalukembe, the hospital offered 3 days of free prenatal consults and ultrasounds. We did in tandem a day focussing on obstetric fistula prevention, with a public health team coming to visit from Lubango to give talks at the hospital, in the patient villa, and at the nursing school.
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Dr. Daniel and Dr. Priscila Cummings
Reviving a 100 Year Old Mission Hospital
When Dr. Daniel and Dr. Priscila Cummings moved to Angola to serve as medical missionaries with their children, Ziek, Eliel, Naomi, it had been 20 years since there was a full-time physician at the hospital.
Life-Giving Blood
Last week we walked to church through the woods, passing a small cemetery covered by the graves of all the newborns who die at our hospital…
Angola – Doing so Much with so Little
The is the story of “J” and his brother. They came to Kalukembe back in March, having each been bitten by a puff adder in their legs the week before. After a failed round of traditional medicines, their limbs were in bad shape.
CATCHING UP in March 2018
Even those in very difficult social circumstances with very little possessions to their names hold to a peace in their situation that puts others to shame.
CATCHING UP in 2018
It’s March and we’ve already had 2 visitors from the States this year–wow! We are now wrapping up our work at the hospital and putting in our good-byes; packing up the house; picking our last sweet potatoes from the garden; flying (and losing) our last kites; maybe squeezing in a
Kalukembe, our beautiful home
It (Kalukembe) is also the place where they are learning who God is, and how He is present and working.
Friends and Visits
Elizabeth, who is a nurse practitioner at Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, brought 2 baby mannequins to help in several hands-on resuscitation sessions on Maternity
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