Saboba’s Hope provides medical aid to Ghana
By David on Feb 21, 2008 in Africa
Saboba’s Hope (Fullerton, CA) is a nonprofit that supports the Saboba Medical Centre of northern Ghana. The Saboba Medical Centre began in 1949 as a project of the Foreign Missions Department of the Assemblies of God and is still operated as a church-based development and relief program. The McNutts were the first white family to live in Saboba when they established the medical center in 1949.
The northern area of Ghana has a population approaching 120,000 people.
The Saboba Medical Centre has grown to a 60-bed hospital, primary health care clinic, outpatient centre, a limited laboratory and a pharmacy. The Outpatient Clinic treats 100+ patients each day.
Diabetes, anemia, guinea worm, typhoid, malaria and malnutrition are some of the illnesses treated by the medical staff.
World Vision’s Ghana Rural Water Project drilled borehole wells that became operational in 2006 to provide clean water to the people of Saboba.
Donation and medical volunteer opportunities are mentioned on their website.
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Marita | Feb 25, 2008 | Reply
David, thank you so much for posting Saboba’s Hope and our efforts to provide funds for a rural mission hospital in Ghana.
It is nice to have others hear about the project and maybe help.
Gayle | Feb 25, 2008 | Reply
What a wonderful opportunity to help those who are so unable to help themselves! I was at the Saboba Medical Centre in November and am awestruck at what can be done to help this little medical centre. I have seen what Saboba’s Hope has done with small donations gathered together into larger ones: two wells, a water tower and mechanized water pump, organizing and inventorying the scanty surgical equipment, paying for the nursing school education of several students, computers to link to the outer world. The needs are great, the hearts of those who give are even greater!