The staff surrounding Dr Joseph From right to left:Lambert the Nutritionalist, Nurse/Pharmacisit Amuli, Nurse/Lab Tech Vicki, Dr Joseph, Nurse Emilie, Nurse Jean de Dieu, kneeling- Aids Dieudonne, Chantal and Louis.
Working together as one for the health, humanity and life of the most vulnerable
Medical Center Staff
Our Doctors
Dr Joseph
Chief staff physician Don Bosco Ngangi
Dr Joseph Muyumba is the heart, soul and workhorse of the Medical Center at Don Bosco Ngangi. He is a volunteer and lives at the medical center, working seven days a week around the clock.
Dr Joseph is Congolese and was born in Sandoa D.R.Congo in 1975. He attended medical school at the University of Lubumbashi and graduated in 2004. He has worked as both a generalist and pediatric specialist in hospitals in both the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda
Dr Joseph
Dr Alfred
staff physician Dom Bosco Ngangi
Dr Alfred Mwenebatende is Congolese. He was born in Kamituga July 2, 1971 in the province of South Kivu. He completed his medical training as a generalist at the University of Kisangani in 2002. He did further specialty training at the University of Kisangani in pediatrics, internal medicine, obstetrics and surgery. He became a staff physician at the Provincial Hospital North Kivu in Goma in 2004. He was on staff at the Therapeutic Nutritional Center of the Department of Diosicene Medical Works in North Kivu from 2004-2007. He has been a consulting physician at the Dom Bosco Ngangi Medical Center from 2004 to the present. Since 2007 he has been chief medical officer for the International Medical Corps. He oversees the medical care of seven refugee camps and six nutritional centers.
Dr Alfred at a near by refugee camp
Dr Sylvia
Project Congo Coordinator
Dr Sylvia Esser-Gleason is an Emergency Medicine physician in various Emergency Departments in the Dayton, Ohio area. She attended medical school at Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine and did postgraduate training at Grandview Hospital in Dayton Ohio. She has been a practicing physician for over 25 years. She first became involved in central Africa through Bridge to Rwanda and its orphanage in Muhororo Rwanda. She is the current program coordinator for the Bridge to Rwanda Sponsor Our Students Program and is involved with several organizations working on human rights and needs issues.
Dr Sylvia and orphan children
Vicky at her microscope
Amuli serves as Pharmacist
Nurse Jean de Dieu treats a child with malaria
Lambert the Nutritionalist oversees the distribution of food to mothers and children
Riziki and her team serve food to the malnourished
