Container Packing, November 2010

FKH T-shirts Available Now!

Want to support Friends of Kibimba Hospital? Go to www.chandlerfriendschurch.com and order a FKH T-shirt. Only $18 and all profits go to support the hospital.

Packing Crates!

Our FKH Board members and friends are busy at work packing crates and getting them in place in the container. It is sitting at the Hospitals of Hope location in Wichita, where we have also rented a pod storage unit to hold materials and supplies as we are in the process. If you would be interested in volunteering some time to help with packing, please contact us! Below are some pictures taken recently of the work in progress. (1) The container & storage unit (2) Building a crate (3) Ready to fill (4) Four crates in place (5) Stuffing in and around the crates (6) FKH Board member Connie Young prepares to inventory the contents

We're Sending Another Container!

FKH has purchased another container, and is now in the process of gathering and purchasing equipment & supplies to fill it, with the goal of shipping it to Burundi before the end of this year. We are actively seeking donations of medicines, equipment and money. Below is a partial list of items we are hoping to send. Please consider how you, your group, and your church can support this project.
New Portable X-ray - $14,500
3 Vacuum Systems - $400 each
5 Spacelabs Monitors - $350 each
Bronchoscope - $2,500
Portable Oxygen Concentrator - $1,350
Services & Supplies from Hospitals of Hope - $5,000
Container Shipping Costs - $20,000

Please keep FKH in your prayers, and help spread the word about this exciting new opportunity. FKH Board members would be happy to visit with your church or group and make a presentation about this project.

A Summer at Kibimba Hospital

Below is a copy of Dr. Elisee's report on the activity at Kibimba Hospital for the past summer (May-July). (Sorry for the quality/size of the print. Each page is a jpeg image, so you can copy & paste somewhere to enlarge if you really want to read the details.) You will get a feel for how busy the hospital -- and Dr. Elisee! -- are all the time. Some of the medical terms are French, but you can figure out most of them.

New Maternity and Pediatric Wards

Dr. Elisee has sent some pictures of the new maternity building and pediatric building. Notice the nice white tile floor in the delivery room!

Friends of Kibimba Hospital brochure

Below is a jpeg image of our newest FKH brochure. Please feel free to copy & paste and print to hand out to those who might have a interest in this project.

Coin Bank Template

Gary & Connie Young have made this creative coin bank template that you are welcome to copy & paste and print off to use to save money to donate in support of the Kibimba Hospital project. Thanks, Youngs!

A Letter from Dr. Elisee

Below is a letter received recently from Dr. Elisee. It gives you an idea of the work that he and the staff at Kibimba Hospital are doing for themselves:

Dear Mae and David Kellum,

greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus. I am very happy to know that you plan to send another container to us in November.We will have a meeting of our staff this week, to determine all the needs of our hospital. I will let you know quickly the list of our needs in the end of this week.

About the hospital line from the transformer to the hospital, I think that it is possible, it is not a big problem. One person who works in REGIDESO at Gitega, told me that we need a big electricity meter which cost 2000$.

About our buildings , we will start to put the framing in the end of this week, tomorrow we will buy sheet metal because today, we have a holiday in our country because of communal elections. Last week , we started to built a building for doctor’s and nurse’s consultations. We finished to built a new mortuary.

Our laboratory has now enough equipment.Thank you very much for all things you are doing for us. May God bless you.

Yours Dr NAHIMANA Elisée

Here are some pictures that Dr. Elisee sent as well:

The picture of the Doctors and nurses building. We think they will be moving the clinic up there to free up some of the rooms in the other bulding. It is located just above the area where they parked the cars.

The Lab

Pediatric building. We understand that it is just accross from the maternity building.

The morgue. David Kellum thinks that is down near the road. It looks like it is close to the brick wall that they built.

FKH Board is hard at work!

The FKH Board is still hard at work, meeting together to discuss ways to assist Dr. Elisee and his staff in continuing to improve and update the hospital facilities.

The Board met on Sat., Feb. 6. Those in attendance are pictured here: (L-R) Homer Smuck, Bruce Carpenter, Dick Long, Lorna Long, Willard Ferguson, Doris Ferguson, Debby McElroy, Twila Flowers, David Kellum, Mae Kellum, Gary Young and Connie Young.