The patients at Presbyterian General Hospital Acha-Tugi in Cameroon need your help.  The Swiss built the hospital in 1963 to serve the region and several West Africa countries. Today, the facility still has equipment dating 1964, many of which are no longer working. For example is the sole EKG machine for the hospital, which is now non-functional.  The Machine has been abandoned with no replacement expected. 

Many patients at Presbyterian General Hospital Acha-Tugi in Cameroon are dying from malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and other diseases that could be easily treated if only medications, supplies and diagnostic tools were available. When I toured the facility in October 2005, I saw many patients in misery. I saw mothers with sick children, waiting and crying for help. Following a Boston Globe article and a TV interview with New England Cable News about the conditions of patients at the hospital, many volunteers donated time and money to ship used but functional medical equipment and supplies to the hospital (www.whitsons.us ).

The long term vision of volunteers helping the villages of the region is to provide a sustainable medical care by creating a patient management strategy through creating, sustaining and embedding medical change as a new and improved collaborative medical care culture. The paradigm shift will reduce the high death rate that has doubled as a result of an increase of an HIV/AIDS rate.

On this Thanks Giving week, we ask you to purchase a copy of the “A Warrior At Heart”. Proceeds from the sale will be used to purchase medications to support the hospital.