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Planet Medical Services, Inc., is an independent non-profit organization working to provide basic health care
and humanitarian aid to impoverished areas worldwide. Third world countries receive first priority where the
need is greatest.
Our present focus is on the Democratic Republic of the Congo where a conflict-driven humanitarian crisis has
claimed 5.4 million victims in nearly a decade. A study released in Jan. 2008 by the International Rescue
Committee (IRC) with Australia’s Burnett Institute, concluded that war and its aftermath has caused more
deaths in DR Congo than any conflict since World War II.
Each month, 45,000 Congolese die from the effects of war, disease and malnutrition. Malaria, diarrhea,
pneumonia and malnutrition are the top killers, according to the report. Most of the deaths are due to easily
treatable and preventable diseases but a collapse of the country’s health infrastructure and political instability
have contributed to the rate of mortality.
Moreover, Congo has the lowest spending on health care of any country in the world at about $15 per person
per year. There are 2,056 doctors for a population of 50 million, nearly half of them are in the capital city of
Kinshasa.
Less than half of the country’s people have safe drinking water. In some rural areas, it’s as low as three
percent.
Children bear the brunt of the suffering. Each year more children under age five die in DR Congo than in China
– a country with 23 times the population – or in all the countries in Latin America combined. The mortality rate
for children under age five is above 200 per thousand.
Almost half of the country’s orphaned have lost their parents to AIDS or malaria.
As late as 2007, the international community continued to ignore DR Congo as a forgotten emergency. In terms
of pledged humanitarian aid, the population of DR Congo has been largely abandoned.
Planet Medical Services, Inc., is working to offer hope to the people of DR Congo. Partnered with faith-based
organizations such as The Ambassadors for Christ Inc. and private donors, our top priority is to establish
satellite and mobile medical clinics throughout the country to provide basic medical care to nearly 18.5 million
people who have no access to any kind of health care. Clinics would be staff by trained personnel in
prescriptions, medicine and management.
Free counseling and treatment for HIV/AIDS patients would be provided as well as treatment for malaria victims
and other diseases. Planet Medical Services supports the need for a coordinated HIV/AIDS prevention
campaign focused on behavioral changes, including sexual habits, and expand access to free anti-retroviral
drugs to eligible patients.
and humanitarian aid to impoverished areas worldwide. Third world countries receive first priority where the
need is greatest.
Our present focus is on the Democratic Republic of the Congo where a conflict-driven humanitarian crisis has
claimed 5.4 million victims in nearly a decade. A study released in Jan. 2008 by the International Rescue
Committee (IRC) with Australia’s Burnett Institute, concluded that war and its aftermath has caused more
deaths in DR Congo than any conflict since World War II.
Each month, 45,000 Congolese die from the effects of war, disease and malnutrition. Malaria, diarrhea,
pneumonia and malnutrition are the top killers, according to the report. Most of the deaths are due to easily
treatable and preventable diseases but a collapse of the country’s health infrastructure and political instability
have contributed to the rate of mortality.
Moreover, Congo has the lowest spending on health care of any country in the world at about $15 per person
per year. There are 2,056 doctors for a population of 50 million, nearly half of them are in the capital city of
Kinshasa.
Less than half of the country’s people have safe drinking water. In some rural areas, it’s as low as three
percent.
Children bear the brunt of the suffering. Each year more children under age five die in DR Congo than in China
– a country with 23 times the population – or in all the countries in Latin America combined. The mortality rate
for children under age five is above 200 per thousand.
Almost half of the country’s orphaned have lost their parents to AIDS or malaria.
As late as 2007, the international community continued to ignore DR Congo as a forgotten emergency. In terms
of pledged humanitarian aid, the population of DR Congo has been largely abandoned.
Planet Medical Services, Inc., is working to offer hope to the people of DR Congo. Partnered with faith-based
organizations such as The Ambassadors for Christ Inc. and private donors, our top priority is to establish
satellite and mobile medical clinics throughout the country to provide basic medical care to nearly 18.5 million
people who have no access to any kind of health care. Clinics would be staff by trained personnel in
prescriptions, medicine and management.
Free counseling and treatment for HIV/AIDS patients would be provided as well as treatment for malaria victims
and other diseases. Planet Medical Services supports the need for a coordinated HIV/AIDS prevention
campaign focused on behavioral changes, including sexual habits, and expand access to free anti-retroviral
drugs to eligible patients.
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Planet Medical Services, Inc.
P.O. Box 189
Smithfield, Va. 23431-0189
Phone: (757)215-4184
E-mail bnkolongo@yahoo.com
Nsekenene Kolongo, M.D.
President & Founder
P.O. Box 189
Smithfield, Va. 23431-0189
Phone: (757)215-4184
E-mail bnkolongo@yahoo.com
Nsekenene Kolongo, M.D.
President & Founder