Health for all : the Vanga story / Daniel E. Fountain ; foreword by David Stevens. [print]
Material type: TextPublication details: Pasadena, California : William Carey Library, (c)2014.Description: xx, 214 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780878085354
- Health for all
- RA395.F771.H435 2014
- RA395
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The vision -- Beginnings -- Multiplication: training health workers -- Decentralization: getting primary healthcare to the people -- Community health: preparing the foundation -- Bringing traditions and science together -- Culture makes almost all the difference -- Animism and the gospel -- From a mediocre to a quality hospital -- Training competent physicians for Africa -- Putting the whole person back together -- HawaiiV: the great challenge -- Population dynamics and how to influence them -- Management as partnership -- Running a health service in a bankrupt economy -- Healthcare and the Christian faith -- The missionary call.
When Dan Fountain and his wife arrived in the Congo in 1961, the challenges to effective medical missions seemed overwhelming. As the only doctor for a quarter of a million residents of the Vanga Health Zone, and with nothing but a dilapidated mission hospital and an undertrained staff to run it, Dr. Fountain turned to prayer, innovation, and local partnerships to meet the vast needs of his area.
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