Our Progress
According to UN statistics, by the year 2025, 83 percent of the global population will be living in underdeveloped countries. Currently, the majority of the world's population lives in rural areas without safe access to shelter, water and food, roads, transportation, and health facilities.
A vision for the future of global medicine, The World Hospital offers a unique solution to the current health care dilemma created by an extreme shortage of medical providers and poor treatment facilities throughout the developing world.
Our goal is to create medical infrastructure and to provide continuous medical education and health care to third-world communities. Education will include information about how to prevent diseases and conditions like HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis. Health care will include the distribution of available vaccines; treatment of malnutrition; and maintenance of maternal and child health.
Step 1: Location and Land Purchase
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The location of the first World Hospital is Bamenda, a city in northwestern Cameroon, West Africa. As the birthplace of World Hospital Founder and CEO Dr. Marinus Ndikum, Cameroon is the natural first step in Dr. Ndikum's mission to give back to a country that so desperately needs aid. |
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In developing countries, building and construction can account for roughly 50 percent of gross domestic capital. In addition to providing modern health care for those in need, The World Hospital will contribute directly to the creation of productive employment helping to bolster the local economy. In Cameroon, land ownership is passed down from generation to generation. The property for the first World Hospital was purchased from a private owner in 2004. |
Step 2: Site Plan and Architectural Design
Building in Cameroon has proven to be a learning experience. There is a lack of modern construction equipment, making the initial topography difficult.
The architectural process has been the most challenging step to date. Again, lacking modern drafting tools such as AutoCad, the work has to be done by hand. Also, having never seen a hospital with Radiology or Emergency facilities, the architects and World Hospital organizers in the United States have had to maintain a constant stream of communication. Finally, after multiple trials three different architects and over nineteen months—hard work and dedication have finally paid off.
Step 3. Planning for a world class health facility.
Estimated Cost of Completion: $11.5 million.
Approximate time for completion 2-4 years. Your help is needed to make this hospital of the future, the hospital of the present.
When complete the first World Hospital will contain:
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Step 4: Creating A Volunteer Health Care Professional Database.
We are currently in the process of building a Volunteer Health Care Professional database to staff future World Hospitals. Physicians, nurses, pharmacists, and all other allied health professionals and students are encouraged to volunteer.
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