Supplying of drinking water to the St. Michel de Nden Hospital, Cameroon

The Air Liquide Foundation, in partnership with the association Aidons la médecine en Africa, is contributing its financial support to St. Michel de Nden Hospital south of Yaoundé in Cameroon.

The St. Michel de Nden Hospital, created in the 1930s, has an operating room, an analytical laboratory and several buildings with a 120-bed capacity. This hospital provided treatment at modest cost to the 40,000 inhabitants of Zoétélé, a district about 100 km south of Yaoundé.

This hospital was abandoned nearly a decade ago, leaving the population without any access to treatment.
In 2010, a French doctor, Xavier Brunier, and his wife decided to reopen the hospital. The association Aidons la médecine en Afrique joined forces with Dr. Brunier to help renovate the hospital. Certain buildings had no drinking water despite the proximity of a former water tower. The premises are dilapidated and the equipment obsolete.

The Air Liquide Foundation’s support will permit the complete renovation of the water distribution system: new plumbing, the creation of new water supply points and the installation of a bacteriological and sanitary filtering system for patients.