14 km from Kinshasa, in N’Djili-Brasserie, Alternatives has undertook a program aimed at supporting a community in difficulty.
The project aims to:
– Reinforce the capacities of the hospital complex by training staff
and insuring the supply of equipment;
– Supply the health center with essential drugs;
– Build and equip two additional houses;
– Build a doctors quarters, a laboratory and a kitchen;
– Nourish 2500 vulnerable children
Before the arrival of Alternatives badly nourished children were housed in the same installations as sick children with infections, which increased the risks of transmission of diseases to the already weakened children. The two additional houses will make it possible to install one hospital service in one building while the other will offer paediatric services.
The absence of a laboratory on the site made it difficult to quickly diagnosis various diseases and infections treated at the center. The construction of the labratory will make important equipment available and will allow for a higher quality of work done close by.
The government has assigned a general practitioner in the Kikimi center of N’Djili-Brasserie. The project will make it possible to build a permanent doctors residence in order to insure their availability
