1. Our morning at the refugee camp
(Stories/Staff stories)

... the refugee camps This past Friday, Emily and I had the opportunity to go on an outreach here in Jos with our neighbor Dr. Don Sampson (an American pediatrician), a Nigerian doctor, and five oth...

2. Baby Hannah
(Stories/Patients)

...er head injury. Little Hannah was born on a Saturday night in "Blind Town," the area in Jos where many of the blind people, mostly beggars, live. It's a regular community of its own, wi...

3. New Solution for Newborn Incubator Shortage: Inexpensive Recycling
(Journal Club/Pediatrics)

...is being reported). If anyone is interested, I'll try to get the details from the authors here in Jos and see if we can make them available. If it's a good system, it would be nice to get people ...

4. Shoeboxes
(Blog/Blog)

...ducting research for our church which is putting together 800 shoeboxes to be brought to orphanages in Jos during a mission trip. We are having high school students bring in personal hygiene items su...

5. Dr. Odumu Outreach Report
(News/News at Evangel)

...ed at Evangel, but in terms of all those who helped make this outreach a success. -- editor We left Jos on 6th April 2007 at noon and arrived at Aobida-Ugbokolo at 9:00 pm. We were exhausted, so re...

6. Neonatal tetanus in Nigeria: does it still pose a major threat to neonatal survival?
(Journal Club/Public Health)

...till a major threat in Nigeria is not answered. Certainly it has become less common at our hospital in Jos, where we admit only 3-4 cases yearly. Neonatal tetanus in Nigeria: does it still pose a...

7. Cost comparison of drugs for malaria prevention
(FAQs/Info for travelers)

... with chloroquine resistant malaria. Figures are $US per week for an adult. I'll try to find the other Jos prices soon if the drugs are available here. I'm not endorsing drugstore.com, it's just an ea...

8. Gone too soon
(Stories/Patients)

From the blog of Dr. Joshua Sule, our newest Evangel consultant Today we lost a young girl, 13 years of age, who had rabies infection. We'll call her Ambe. It all started four months ago when a

9. Summary of Evangel's history by Dr. Bev Truxton
(Evangel Information/History)

...sion of SIM missionary Dr. Lonnie Grant. He made a proposal to SIM in 1956 to build a hospital outside Jos, to be known as Evangel Hospital, to care for the medical and spiritual needs of Nigerians. A...

10. Why should we build a hospital in Jos? 1956
(Evangel Information/History)

Notes used by Dr. L. C. Grant in his appearance before the S.I.M. Council in Jos in about November, 1956, to request permission to build a hospital in Jos, later to be known as Evangel Hospital.

11. Dr. Grant's speech at the dedication of Evangel Hospital, 1959
(Evangel Information/History)

... gather to dedicate this building to Him for His Service and for the help and welfare of the people of Jos. God is the One who has provided for this project in every way and He is one whom we trust to...

12. Dedication of Evangel Hospital, 1959
(Evangel Information/History)

The Jenta section of Jos Township in Plateau Province of Northern Nigeria was the scene of the dedication service of the out-patient building of the new Sudan Interior Mission Hospital on Sunday, the

13. Some notes by a founder on the early history of Evangel Hospital
(Evangel Information/History)

...dan Interior Mission (1950-1953), I was impressed with the need for a hospital for African patients in Jos, in addition to the Bingham Memorial Nursing Home which had been in operation for some years....

14. New ENT clinic dedicated, staffed
(News/News at Evangel)

Our final month in Jos was hectic, exciting and full of activity.  We were able to see the completion of the new ENT clinic at Evangel hospital.  This expanded facility will allow for more e

15. Information for medical and pre-med students coming to Evangel
(FAQs/Medical and pre-medical student rotations)

... This visit will be arranged for you as a group. JUTH The “Big” national hospital in Jos … Jos University Teaching Hospital. Find someone who works there or has worked there i...

16. Tina's Story
(Stories/Pro-Life Evangel)

...and the willingness of many to be humbled rather than hidden, the situation on HIV/AIDS has changed in Jos and there is no markedly less stigma than in the past. It's time to do the same with pregnanc...

17. New life, new lives in Nigeria
(News/News at Evangel)

...o see Aisha's child. A place for miracles Norman first met Aisha at Evangel Hospital in the city of Jos, on a high plateau in central Nigeria. Like many other young women, Aisha had come to the hos...

18. Evangel Hospital Begins Offering Free HIV/AIDS Drugs
(News/Latest)

Evangel Hospital has begun treating HIV/AIDS patients at no charge. Free treatment, which began this month, includes clinic visits, basic laboratory results including CD4 counts, drugs for some illnes

19. Most CSW in Jos, Nigeria practice vaginal washing with lemon/lime juice
(Journal Club/HIV)

...he authors of this study interviewed 200 commercial sex workers and 100 family planning clients FPC in Jos, Nigeria, asking them about the use of lemon and lime juice for sex. Most of the CSW (82%) bu...

20. Prosthetics project
(Projects/Other)

Jos, Nigeria is a city of approximately 700,000 people. According to statistics generated in Kenya, approximately 1% of the population in that African city has some physical disability. So in a city t