In sending this gift you certainly couldn't know what great service it was to be to me, for the purchase of food for the native patients, I have to pay a fortune to the factories at
Lambarene. It concerns above all a quantity of rice and I was having trouble to pay it, for the funds of the hospital were exhausted and your gift relieved me from embarrassment and worry.
MUrbeth et al., "Incidence, pathogens and resistance patterns of nosocomial infections at a rural hospital in
Lambarene, Gabon," BMC Infectious Diseases, vol.
Undaunted, he built a small hospital in
Lambarene, then-French Equatorial Africa, in what had been a chicken coop, and worked there until his death in 1965.
Schweitzer's
Lambarene hospital to the Protestant school and church that were founded by U.S.
Etymology: The new species is dedicated to Francois Mengila, born in
Lambarene, living in Libreville, in appreciation of his continued help as driver and guide during all collecting trips of the second author in Gabon since 2002.
The original Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, which began in 1979, continues to send medical students to work at a hospital Schweitzer founded in
Lambarene, Gabon.
The logistics, ably organised in close co-operation with Gabon's Head of State, President Mi Bongo Ondimba and his administration, allowed physicians, scientists, researchers, representatives of pharmacological companies and NGOs to participate in two days of debate and panel sessions, as well as a trip to
Lambarene, the small town on the banks of the River Ogooue where Schweitzer built his hospital.
There is evidence some traffickers operate out of
Lambarene to avoid detection in Libreville.
Some of these friends visited him in Africa and performed with him in
Lambarene. Performing and giving lectures in various places, Schweitzer raised funds to fulfill ambitious aims such as financing the national doctor's exam and partially building and running the hospital in
Lambarene.
trouble ourselves so little; about the great humanitarian task which offers itself to us in far off lands." Schweitzer funded and built a hospital at
Lambarene, western Gabon, where he worked for 40 years.
(4) A series of famines from 1916 onward killed thousands and inspired increased migration to coastal and western river towns such as
Lambarene and Port-Gentil.