"Compassion Evangelical Hospital (CEH) shares the gospel of Jesus Christ while providing compassionate, quality, culturally appropriate healthcare and education."
Compassion Evangelical Hospital of the Guinean Mountains (CEH) is a non-profit mission organization incorporated in Michigan (U.S.A.) in 2004 which owns and operates the Compassion Evangelical Hospital and Clinic and School of Nursing near the central city of Mamou, in the country of Guinea, West Africa. CEH is a member of L'Association des Églises et des Missions Évangeliques de Guinée (L'AEMEG - the Association of Evangelical Churches and Missions of Guinea - an interdenominational mission and church association in Guinea that helps to network, coordinate and facilitate evangelism and church planting in this Muslim country), and is a member of the Evangelical Council of Financial Accountability (ECFA).
CEH is located at the central Guinean crossroad city of Mamou between the two least evangelized people groups, the Pular or Fulani and the Malinke people groups who are both 99.999% Muslim. Thousands have heard the gospel at CEH and nearly 300 have made clear professions of faith.
Governance of CEH is by a U.S.-based board. M. Étienne Ouattara, MBA, MHA, a missionary from Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) is the hospital administrator. Jean Paul Gbilimou, MD, a Guinean with training in OB/GYN is the chief of staff. Additional staff include another missionary from Cote d'Ivoire, Paul Sidjani, MD, a general surgeon who does SIGN Nail whose wife, Elisabeth Sidjani is Head of HR; David Mensare, another Guinean generalist practitioner, and a part-time ophthalmologist. The African medical support staff includes approximately 50 persons.
CEH is unique as one of the first evangelical mission hospital started and staffed by African missionaries in partnership with American evangelical churches. Our vision is "Self-sustaining, African-led, whole person optimal health for Guineans." To achieve this we are currently seeking to appoint a team of healthcare professionals including a pharmacist, a lab director, and 2-3 nurse educators for the nursing school, a physical therapist, 2 family medicine, internal med, pediatric or med/ped physicians, another general surgeon and a dentist to grow the ministry and build healthcare capacity in this very medically and spiritually underserved country of Guinea through the creation of a PAACS general surgery residency program and CAAP family medicine residency program over the next 10 years. These missionaries would be sent either through our CEH mission board or seconded to us by another mission board.
For more information, please visit our English language, western-facing website at www.cehguinea.org or our French language, Africa-facing website at www.compassionguinee.com or contact one of us at GMHC who are listed as present at GMHC 2024 (schedule meeting link) or stop by our booth. We'd love to grab a coffee with you and talk more about how you might be a nidus around which a team of African and expat Jesus-follower medical professionals passionate about evangelism in least-evangelized countries can join what God is doing in Guinea.
