The Djamane Mbarissou Confessional Hospital is located in the Mayo Kebbi Est district, approximately 250 km north of Moundou. The village of Djamane Mbarissou established a small health center in 1984, which steadily grew and has been a recognized hospital since 2010. It is one of five hospitals in the province and is of great geographical importance. In these rural areas, it is often very difficult for the population to travel long distances to central hospitals; therefore, Djamane Mbarissou has always been a vital resource for the rural population of this province.

 

The village of Djamane Mbarissou and the surrounding villages in the municipality have approximately 8,000 inhabitants. However, the hospital's catchment area far exceeds this. Patients come from other provinces or even from Cameroon due to the high quality of care. During the rainy season from June to August, however, the hospital is difficult to access due to poor road conditions.

 

The Hôpital Confessionnel de Djamane Mbarissou is under the patronage of the Eglise Fraternelle Lutherienne au Tchad (EFLT) and is therefore a Christian hospital. However, it treats patients of all religions and ethnicities. Government support is provided in certain areas, such as preventative medicine (vaccinations, etc.) and malaria control, as the hospital is located at a strategically important point for the Mayo Kebbi Est province. Furthermore, the government is supposed to provide a doctor for the hospital, but it is difficult to find a suitable doctor for such a remote region.

 

Attached to the hospital is a school offering a three-year nursing program. The program consists of classroom instruction from various lecturers across the country and several practical placements in different healthcare facilities. Furthermore, the hospital oversees more than 20 outlying health centers that provide primary care to the local population. These centers are visited and supervised every six months, and complex patients are referred to the central hospital in Djamane Mbarissou.

 

The hospital is administratively managed by a board of directors, whose president is Professor Damtehou Sadjoli. A gynecologist with his own practice in the capital, N'Djamena, he originally comes from the region surrounding the hospital in Djamane Mbarissou and is deeply rooted in the area. Together with the other members of the board, he makes strategic decisions and plans future projects with us. He also schedules the board meetings twice a year and visits the hospital every four to six weeks. Besides the government-employed doctor on site, Professor Sadjoli is our primary contact person at this hospital.