Mbingo Baptist Hospital

Mbingo Baptist Hospital is a referral hospital in Cameroon and the West Africa Sub Region. The Hospital is an approved HIV/AIDS treatment center. It serves as a training center for the Pan African Academy of Christian Surgeons (PAACS) and the Christian Internal Medicine Specialization programs (CIMS). Mbingo Baptist Hospital is the largest of six hospitals run by the Cameroon Baptist Convention Health Services. The hospital is sixty years old, having originally begun as a leprosy settlement in 1952. Currently, it is a 290-bed referral teaching facility providing high quality, affordable and accessible care to all those in need, as an expression of Christian love and witness. The hospital is located at 4300 feet elevation in the Northwest Region of Cameroon, 37 km north of Bamenda, the provincial capital. Patients are currently received from throughout Cameroon and some surrounding African countries. The hospital is staffed by 15 full time specialty-trained physicians, 20 resident physicians. Almost one hundred specialist physicians volunteer at the hospital each year, providing additional specialty services. The number of staff at the Baptist Hospital in Mboppi in March 2013 was 228 people