Mbingo Baptist Hospital

Mbingo Hospital is an amazing place - it has 260 beds that include general medicine, surgical, pediatric and maternity beds.  They have a Cameroonian surgical and internal medicine residency program as well as a nurse practitioner training program and are very focused on education and improvement.  My jobs while I'm here include rounding with the residents on the 20 bed pediatric ward, presenting pediatric learning topics at afternoon conference and seeing sick infants in the maternity ward.  We've been working hard with the midwives getting ready for the Helping Babies Breathe course and getting information on how they practice neonatal care and where improvements can be made.   The midwives have all been very interested in how infants are taken care of in the US and were shocked to learn how premature some the babies we take care of are.  There's no lack of work or patients to see.  Here are some pictures of the hospital, the pediatric ward and the 6 bed NICU to give you a feel of where I am every day.  


In the Entrance to Mbingo Hospital

In front of the Pediatric Ward

The NICU - two incubators with the ability to give oxygen and CPAP

Triplet Infants that are doing great!

The other infants in the incubator