Hôpital St. Jean de Dieu, Boko

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Description

St. Jean hospital is situated about 15 kilometres north of the city of Parakou in the province of Bourgou. It is a regional hospital which is dependent on the bishopric and has 100 beds at its disposal. It also receives some support from the Belgian Foundation Hubi and Vinciane via C.D.I. Bwamanda with whom we are in consultation.
It is a well run hospital which is part of the Private, Confessional, and Social Health Care Association (AMCES = ‘Association des oeuvres Medicales privees Confessionnelles et Sociales au Benin’). Students from Belgium (UCL – University College of Leuven) come to this hospital to do work placements for a few months.

There are 3 doctors (2 surgeons and 1 doctor for public health) who perform the most standard and urgent operations, but in the meantime they have improved their skills in performing orthopaedic operations.
For treatment after an operation (protheses for patients who have undergone an operation), we work together successfully with Mr. Lazare, physiotherapist and prothesis maker from Parakou. He draws up the list of patients and prepares the patients for their operation. Mr Lazare’s physiotherapy department and surgery have been completely modernised and fitted with new apparatus for the manufacture of protheses. Every year, students come from Antwerp and Louvain-la-Neuve schools of physiotherapy to do a work placement.

Results of the missions

It has emerged that the orthopaedic missions, in conjunction with Mr Lazare’s orthopaedic surgery, have had a big impact on the region around Parakou as well as on the hospital of Boko itself. The MWV missions to Boko comply especially with the primary objective of MWV. The general nurses and anaesthetic nurses are trained here during the missions. Mr Lazare has applied for 2 orthopaedic missions a year. Naturally, this will be discussed first with the hospital management during the planned assessment mission 2008. 

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