Bloggen hebben ze mij gevraagd, bloggen, ja, maar hoe kan dat zonder elektriciteit, zonder beschikbare pc, en vooral zonder tijd?

Ca fait 6 ans que je connais l’Hôpital pédiatrique de Kimbondo sur le Mont Ngafula, près de Kinshasa sur la route de Matadi. C’est toujours avec la même émotion que j’y retourne. Au fil des ans, les missions se chargent de mémoire, d’émotion, de souvenirs , de chagrin et de joie.

First of all, I would like to introduce the Kimbondo pediatric hospital in Congo DR. It’s already 6 years ago, since I dropped there for the first time. I was immediately subjugated by padre Hugo, priest and physician from Chili, who came down to join Dr Laura Perna, former professor of pediatric pneumology at Sienna University some 15 years ago. Kimbondo started as a malnutrition clinic and developed to a full staffed pediatric hospital, divided in pavilions devoted to specific illnesses (cardiology, TBC, nephrology, infectious diseases, neurology, etc). Moreover, besides the 300 inpatients, there are about 250 orphans housed on the Ngafula Hill, where the hospital was built.