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Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital
In 1979, an ABWE hospital survey team discovered a populous region of Togo where no major medical facility was available. God marvelously called together a small, dedicated medical-surgical team to begin construction. Named for ABWE former President Wendell Kempton
=s first wife who died suddenly in1980, Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital (KKMCH) opened in the summer of 1985. Known in Togo as L=Hopital Baptist Biblique, the hospital is now a major medical-surgical acute care facility that provides compassionate care to the half million people living in the general region. Annually, it provides care to over 5,000 new outpatients and 1,000 inpatients, including around 750 surgical cases.(KKMCH) is a ministry of the ABWE. No other mission agencies are involved in this work. This hospital is completely staffed and funded by ABWE missionaries and supporters. Its purpose is to provide both medical and spiritual help to all who pass through its doors. The bulk of the patients are Togolese, but many come from neighboring Ghana, Burkina Faso, and Benin. Expatriates, both American and European, frequent the facility. The staff is composed of missionary physicians, physician assistants, nurses, and Togolese nursing and support staff.
KKMCH is officially a twenty-five bed hospital. The daily census runs from 10 to 30 patients, but is usually around 20. There are two wards, generally the larger for women and children and the smaller for men, and three private rooms which can be used for isolation or for patients who are willing to pay higher rates for them. The recovery room/ICU can handle two beds or stretchers. The treatment room which adjoins the nurses
= station is used for labor and normal deliveries, minor surgery, examinations, and many other procedures. Medical admissions are most often malaria, typhoid fever, severe anemia, congestive heart failure, and various infections.Two operating rooms are scheduled 2
2 days per week in addition to emergencies. The most common cases are herniorrhaphies, C-sections, exploratory laparotomies, D&C=s, I&D=s, and trauma.The outpatient clinic operates four days a week and averages 60-80 patients per day, plus emergencies. The clinic contains four exam rooms, a dental room for tooth extractions, and a treatment room for minor surgical procedures. The clinic sees the whole range fo tropical diseases including malaria, typhoid, helminths, filaria, schistosomiasis, and TB. Other common illnesses are hypertension, CHF, ascites, PID and other STD
=s, infertility, cataracts, glaucoma, diabetes, arthritis, BPH, anemia, GI worms and other parasite diseases, and osteomyelitis and other bone infections.
VISION STATEMENT
We are the Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital,
an integral component of the ABWE Togo Ministry.
We are impacting the people of Togo by
fervent medical evangelism.
We are modeling the compassion of the Great Physician
by providing quality health care,
which opens doors to enable us to
evangelize,
disciple,
train leadership,
and to plant reproducing indigenous Baptist churches.
The purpose of Karolyn Kempton Memorial Christian Hospital is to provide quality medical care in a manner which points its patients to the Great Physician who demonstrated to us the greatest example of compassionate healing. Following His example in providing a caring atmosphere brings forth a commitment to communicate the love and truth of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The hospital staff not only wants to bring healing for patients= bodies, but also hope for their eternal souls. Typically, hundreds come to trust the Great Physician each year at Karolyn Kempton. As they return to their villages, they become the nucleus for starting Bible studies with the anticipated result being many Christ-honoring churches throughout Togo.