Largest private gift ever to Christian medical missions — at least $20M — given by Rabbi Erica and Mark Gerson, in conjunction with UBS Press Release: The KAIROS Company for Mark Gerson and African Mission Healthcare Sept. 22, 2021 NEW YORK — African Mission Healthcare expresses gratitude to Jewish…

In August and September, I worked at Kijabe Hospital, something I hadn’t done since 2006. Most of the time was spent on the respiratory (COVID-19) ward. The level of care and the change from a decade and a half ago impressed me. Particularly striking was the clinical competence of a…

They require systems Africa often lacks We didn’t know why the 20-year-old woman with extremely low oxygen levels had pneumonia in both her lungs. She wasn’t HIV-infected and didn’t look malnourished. Exposure to indoor air pollution — yet another life hazard for rural African women — was a possible cause. …

Three weeks ago at Maua Methodist Hospital in Kenya a one and a half year old baby was admitted with months of fevers. A pediatrician some hours away had been caring for him, so we had little knowledge about what had been done previously. The child developed seizures and then…

AMH Announces Selection of First Mission Teaching Hospitals to Receive 10-year, $2.5 Million Award to Bolster Medical Education AMH is pleased to share that Kibuye Hospital in Burundi and Nkhoma Hospital in Malawi are the first two institutions selected to receive decade-long support under the L’Chaim Initiative’s Mission Hospital Teaching…

Battling disease in Kenya, Malawi, Burundi and South Sudan When working in Malawi, I used to say the country was two generations behind Kenya medically: fewer hospitals, doctors, nurses, oxygen tanks, labs. Fewer everything. Visiting South Sudan, my Kenyan colleague surveyed the lack of development and said, “This is Kenya…

12 October 2018 African Mission Healthcare announces Dr. Rick Sacra of ELWA Hospital as winner of its annual Gerson L’Chaim Prize for Outstanding Christian Medical Mission Service — Dr. Rick Sacra, Ebola virus survivor, will use the $500,000 award to train health workers and improve hospital infrastructure at ELWA Hospital…

Catherine Crawford, Family Medicine Specialist at Nkhoma Mission Hospital in Malawi, shares how the funds from the AMH-CBN Matching grant will be used to improve the training of Family Medicine Registrars, and thus, the country at large. These funds will pay for three additional houses for the new family medicine…

May 2018 Dear Friend of Dr. Catena, She had been pushing against a closed birth canal for a full day. In her remote village in the Nuba Mountains of Sudan, only traditional birth attendants were available to assist women in labor — and they do not know how to check…