With the help of donations made to Friends of Moma Hospital, we have been able to purchase a motorbike for the hospital. Last week Dr. Christoph Bakamubia picked up the hospital’s new motorbike in Kananga. Working through Elder Simon Ntumba of the Congo Presbyterian Church, Dr. Christoph was able to get all of the ownership papers and insurance completed.

Elder Ntumba thanked all who helped make this purchase possible, “On behalf of the Church we sincerely thank you for having solved a very important problem of this hospital and we also thank you to all our brothers and sisters who contributed to the realization of this project.”

When your hospital is in a remote area with no decent roads, a motorbike is the only logical solution. The bike will be used primarily for transporting medicines and equipment (a motorbike can carry up to 300 pounds). The bike will also be used to transport patients, travel to villages where medical care is not available, and bring life-saving medicine to the most remote areas of the region.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today, barely 2% of roads in the Congo are paved. The rest are just dirt tracks or paths, often impassable in the rainy season. Trucks and even 4-wheel-drive vehicles cannot manage to get through where bridges are out or where roads are blocked by mud and thick clay. They stall, sink or overturn. Only motorcycles and motorbikes can make the seemingly impossible journey.

Until now, Dr. Bakamubia and other doctors assigned to Moma depended on the network of “mototaxis” run out of Luiza. These taxis were costly and often not available in times of emergency.