The Parent Home at Mbingo Baptist Hospital: an Update
Archive for January 2016 described our vision and design for a hostel (parent home) at Mbingo Baptist Hospital (MBH), our main childhood cancer treatment centre – for mothers or guardians of children with cancer. The plans were approved and costed in 2015 and the foundations of this 16-room building were laid earlier this year –…
HIV/AIDS and Cancer
Looking back over the last 9 years the most enjoyable experiences of my biannual trips to Cameroon have been outreach visits into the bush to find children whom we have treated for cancer. We go armed with a photo of the child, a village name and sometimes the mobile phone number of a parent or…
A new purpose built Parent Home at Mbingo Baptist Hospital
We now have permission to proceed with the building of a hostel for mothers of children with cancer treated under our programme. The plans have been approved and costed. Land was given in 2015 by the hospital board and foundations will be laid in January 2016. At present the mother of a child receiving chemotherapy…
Clinical work at Banso Baptist Hospital
Our childrens cancer treatment service was pioneered at Banso Baptist Hospital by Dr Peter McCormick and Prof Peter Hesseling. In terms of infrastructure our programme is best developed at this hospital with a dedicated childrens cancer ward, a drug-mixing room and a childrens playroom. On a round of the childrens cancer (Burkitt) ward at Banso…
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