One of the goals of LVM is to build a children’s hospital
for Luila villages, since the nearest city and hospital are Kinshasa which is 50 miles away. Many of these
children have physical infirmities, which go untreated.
Not only war
is making things very difficult, but also diseases such as malaria, cholera,
blindness, smallpox are hitting a lot our young children.
The premise is that their physical
needs must be attended to before their mental and spiritual needs can be
addressed.
LVM have purchased a land of 70 acres to build a complex including
a children hospital. The Polyclinic-Hospital design is realized. The initial
phase calls for the facility to have: an entrance area with a waiting room,
an emergency room, 16 hospital rooms with 2 beds per room (32 patients in
the first phase); a training room and a cafeteria; a multipurpose room.
Women, and in particular unwed mothers, will be trained in various skills
such as nurses and midwives. A second phase will include an elementary
school, a day care, and an orphanage
The goal of the J.and JA Meadows children hospital is to provide quality
preventive and emergency care to the children in need in Luila
Village
and the villages around. The hospital aims to reduce health disparities in
the local villages.
The initial phase calls for the facility to have:
• An emergency room: 32 beds in the first phase
•
a training room for unwed mothers and a
cafeteria; a multipurpose room
•
an emergency training room for unwed mothers
and
•
a cafeteria for hospital dining
•
a multipurpose room
