October 15, 2026 | Project C.U.R.E
Three months ago, a former education center in Luanda, Angola, opened its doors as a hospital. Hospital Materno Infantil Amazonas operates with a simple mission: to give women and children safe access to medical care built around their needs.
The Amazonas Global Health Foundation purchased the three-story building and began renovations soon after. The hospital is the center of a growing network. The foundation also runs four clinics and purchased two ambulances to bring patients from rural areas who are too sick or hurt to make the trip on their own.
That network fills a serious gap. Angola has just 0.24 physicians for every 1,000 people, or about one doctor for every 4,000. Hospital beds are just as scarce, at 0.75 per 1,000 people.
During Project C.U.R.E.'s recent needs assessment, the foundation's team walked us through every room and shared where they hope to take it next.
The renovated first floor is already hard at work. It holds a reception office, a waiting room, a pharmacy, five exam and consultation rooms, a laboratory, a triage room, staff break areas, and two inpatient beds.
In its first three months, the hospital cared for 75 patients, all of them women and girls. Ninety percent were adults ages 18 to 59. The two inpatient beds stayed 80 percent full on average.
Five doctors, two surgeons, three nurses, a nurse's aide, and three lab technicians care for those patients. Three anesthesiologists and three biomedical technicians rotate among the hospital and the foundation's four clinics.
The hospital's top three requests are four infant incubators, one X-ray machine, and two operating lights. For a baby born too early, an incubator provides the steady warmth a tiny body cannot yet make on its own. An X-ray machine brings answers on-site that would otherwise mean a referral across the city. Operating lights will make safe surgery possible once the new operating room opens.
The full assessment identified needs across nearly every area of care:
Even the waiting room has a need: chairs for the families who come through the door and wait while their loved ones receive care.
Amazonas Global Health built the foundation. Together, we can fill the rooms.
This container is the first step in the foundation's plan to strengthen care across its hospital and clinics. With 96 percent of every dollar going directly to our work, your gift helps send incubators, monitors, and lifesaving supplies to mothers and babies in Luanda. It's how we deliver health and hope, one container at a time.
