Schweitzer Hospital Visit

Monday, November 1, Pastor Sangoye and I drove about 3.5 hours to the town of Lamberene, home of the Albert Schweitzer Hospital (ASH). This is a 150 bed facility founded nearly 100 years ago by a Nobel Peace Prize winner. The purpose of the visit was to build relationships and explain our medical air transport program.

Prior to the meetings, Katie (an intern at ASH) gave us a tour of the large campus. Among many of the programs at ASH, they have started an initiative to end TB in their province.

Then it was on to the meetings. To the left is Marc, the General Director of ASH and to the right is the great-grand daughter of Albert Schweitzer! It was great to meet them and explain our program.

I also had the great privilege of meeting Dr. Lachlan Forrow, president of the board at ASH and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.