Gidan Waya Clinic

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Gidan Waya Clinic

Serving Full-time since April 16, 2018

History

Full official name of clinic is The Arthur and Esther Bradley Memorial Anglican Hospital at Gidan Waya. Funds for this building were given by Arthur Bradley after his death in 2011. Mr. and Mrs. Bradley were long-time members of Trinity Episcopal Church in Tariffville. Shortly before his death, Mr. Bradley told Rev. Tom Furrer that he was leaving the money in his will and specifically requested that the money be used to build new medical clinics in Nigeria.

Our local partners

The Anglican Diocese of Kafanchan. After many years of conversation between Bishop Markus Dogo and Rev. Tom Furrer, Kateri Medical Services agreed to build a new clinic in Kafanchan Diocese. The small town of Gidan Waya was chosen because there was no medical facility of any kind in this town of about 50,000 people. The new clinic will serve the town and many surrounding rural villages.

Kafanchan With Bishop Markus Dogo, Mrs. Nana Dogo, Architect Ndanusa Fearon at new clinic in Gidan Waya, diocese of Kafanchan.

Gidan Waya Clinic

We began our newest clinic in the small city of Gidan Waya in the Anglican Diocese of Kafanchan. The site of Gidan Waya was chosen because there is no medical facility in the city of about 50,000 people. Bishop Markus Dogo felt tat this city was the one with the greatest need for a medical facility.

As is the case with our hospital in Gusua, the clinic in Gidan Waya is being built adjacent to a diocesan primary and secondary school. It is also adjacent to St. Mark’s Anglican Church.

We are building this clinic next to the church and school based on the model of the early missionaries in Nigeria, who always planted churches, schools and clinics together to mutually reinforce the message of God’s love and presence through worship, education and medicine.

As is the case with all of our other clinics, we have a commitment to serve everyone, even if they cannot afford to pay. We have dual goals of sustainability and helping those who cannot afford medical care.

We hope to open this new clinic in late 2017.

Staff

We are now in the process of hiring our team of medical professionals. Below is Dr. Illiya Bulus, Chief Medical Officer for the Diocese of Kafanchan. He and a committee of medical professionals will hire and supervise the staff at Gidan Waya Clinic.

Statistics

We opened the new hospital on April 16, 2018 and began our first free medical mission. In the first week, we served 2,230 people. In the first six weeks of normal operations with a not-yet complete staff, the clinic served 398 people.