Mosango Hospital

Photos by Joris Hermans

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Mosango Hospital

In February this year I had the opportunity to go to the DR Congo. For two weeks I stayed at Mosango Hospital. It is a big hospital somewhere in the middle between Kinshasa and Kikwit and takes care of a area of about 100,000 people. Life is hard when you stay in the hospital. Doctors have to work in bad conditions with old instruments but they all do their best. And even though, when I was there, almost every day someone died, everybody was friendly and kept up their smile. I could talk to everyone and they all were very open. I heard to most amazing but also horrific stories. Everybody I met, earned my deepest respect.

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