Annual Operating Subsidy

Eachyear we provide $200,000 toward the basic operating costsof the CEUM medical system, along with $125,000 fornecessary drugs. The Ubangi-Mongala region was devastated, as was muchof the country, by the civil war that began in 1998. Armies andmilitias from half a dozen countries crossed into Congo to take part inthe struggle. In the Ubangi, the area was stripped of everything of anymaterial value. Hospitals were overrun, damaged, and looted, theirsystems for water and electricity destroyed.
 
Karawa hospitalWhen the areastabilized enough for Westerners to come back in, the CEUM hospitalsand clinics had lost nearly everything and had no money to restore it.Many doctors and nurses had continued to work throughout the war, doingtheir best to care for the people. When the PCP sent a team in 2003 toevaluate the needs, they found empty pharmacies, staffs that had notbeen paid for several years, and hospitals functioning without lights,refrigeration, disinfectant, or even clean water.
 
The$325,000 total support from the PCP currently provides approximatelyone-third of the operating costs for the CEUM system. Other assistanceand some patient fees make up part of the remainder, but much remainsunfunded. One of our goals in emphasizing economic development is tohelp rebuild the economic base in the area to the point where thepeople themselves will be able to support the major part of thesystem's costs through patient fees.

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