May we please introduce you to Nkinga Hospital

Forgive us for the rudeness of not properly presenting you to our surroundings here at Nkinga hospital. We would now like to take you through our current working place: the maternity ward at Nkinga hospital. Lets begin with the entrence, here it is:

This is the first courtyard you arrive to after walking through the entrance to the hospital.

Straight ahead you can see the out patient clinic (OPC), this place is usually crowded during the day. People are sitting here and waiting to be seen by the health personel. Nearly 60 000 people visited the outpatient clinic in 2009. If you go to the right (instead of forward) you will come here:

To the left is the passage to the maternity ward which is where we spend most of our time. The maternity ward was built in 1977, so its not exactly up to date. Here is the entrence to the ward:

Please note the sign hanging from the ceiling.

If we continue a little bit ahead and then to the left we will arrive at the reception desk of the maternity ward. Here it is:

The not so big but usually very busy reception.

Here are some of the health personel of the maternity ward. 

The moment when we took the pictures above the personel were sitting and folding compresses. We guess that you would not have guessed that the compresses were folded by hand, but guess what; that is how it is done here!

If we go outside again we will come to this small yard, to the left are the private rooms for patients with gynecological problems and to the right are the postnatal rooms.

One of the newly delivered women really wanted us to take a photo of her. 

Nkinga hospital is quite old, it was built in 1961. Except for the maternity ward they have three other wards; the medical-, the surgical and the pediatric ward. In addition they have a dental, an eye, an antenatal and an HIV clinic. The hospital has a bed capacity of 150 beds, but it is normally more patients than that! The inpatient services in 2009 amounted to almost 13 000. More than 4 000 patients of these patients were obstetric/gynecological patients. Those are the ones which we focus our project on!

So this is Nkinga hospital. We are glad you met each other, and please feel free to ask any questions! So long...