Great news! In 2020, Kibuye Hope Hospital will become affiliated with the Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons' surgical residency program. This is a major step forward for KHH. Becoming a PAACS hospital recognizes the quality of Kibuye's surgical program, the capability of the staff and the hospital's commitment to service in the name of Christ. There are 9 hospitals in 8 different countries: Tanzania, Gabon, Niger, Egypt, Kenya, Malawi, Cameroon, Ethiopia. Kibuye will be hospital number 10 in the 9th country, Burundi.  Here is what PAACS says about its ministry:  "The Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons (PAACS) is a strategic response to the need for surgeons in Africa. We are a non-denominational, multinational service organization training African physicians to become surgeons who are willing to remain in Africa to meet this need. PAACS also disciples these residents to share the love and gospel of Jesus Christ with their patients. The surgical and s...

Some key parts of Kibuye Hope Hospital are less obvious than others. Cleaning, purchasing, lab testing, accounting, and so many other tasks are vital for a hospital to work well, but can be a bit hidden. Kibuye is about to open our new pharmacy building - a huge improvement to one of these critical support services.   As KHH has grown over the past decades, the pharmacy function has grown, spread out, and moved around. There have been multiple small pharmacy locations, scattered around various buildings. It makes it hard to manage, hard to staff, and confusing and frustrating for patients. Our receiving and storage are done in places that are cause the tasks to be time-consuming and difficult. Our new pharmacy is a stand-alone building, centrally located in the hospital compound. It's been designed and built so that all the functions - managing, receiving, storing, and serving patients - will all be more efficient, faster, and easier for everyone. Patients will get medic...