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Onandjokwe Lutheran Hospital is the first hospital in the northern part of Namibia. It was built in 1911 by the Finnish Missionary Society under the leadership of Dr. Selma Rainio. The hospital is currently owned by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia (ELCIN) via Lutheran Medical Services and is also partly subsidised by the Government of the Republic of Namibia. Onandjokwe Lutheran Hospital is located in the Ondangwa Area in Oshikoto Region. Ondangwa town has a population of 36,800 according to the 2011 census data and has a small airport serviced by two daily Air Namibia commercial flights from Windhoek’s Eros Airport. Onandjokwe serves as the primary health care centre for the Onandjokwe District of the Oshikoto Region which has a size of approximately 25 000 km². According to the most recent census data of 2011, the population of the Oshikoto Region is 181,600 of which Oniipa make up a population of 24 800. Onandjokwe is staffed by 240 nurses, both full-time nurses and nursing students, as well as by 22 doctors. The Hospital has 470 beds, ten different wards and 9 smaller clinics and other services.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.actionglobalhealth.com/index.php/projects/profile/288 )〕 == Founder == Dr. Selma Rainio was born on 21 March 1873 in Saarijärvi in Central Finland to Anton Lilius and Amanda Sofia Perden. She developed a strong religious belief at the age of 17 after her recovery from a serious typhoid fever. Her desire to become a doctor came about as a result of nursing her father who had suffered a stroke. She registered at the University of Helsinki in 1896. As a student, she was enthusiastically engaged in the movement of temperance, feminism and Christianity. She changed her last name to Rainio in 1906. Rainio is the name of the village in the rural municipality of Karkku where her family originated. During her studies she worked at a number of Hospitals in Finland as an acting Assistant Physician and Amanuensis in various departments such as the gynecological department, pediatric surgery, and mental hospital before graduating as a Medical Doctor. When Selma Rainio graduated, there was a search for missionary doctors to China and Africa. She chose the work of a missionary doctor in Africa. In October 1908 the Finnish Evangelic Lutheran Mission sent her with two female missionaries to Ondonga – Ovamboland in what was then South-West Africa. She arrived in Ovamboland in December 1908. Dr. Rainio started treating patients at Oniipa Mission Station, without a hospital. Being the first doctor in the area, she is said to have treated up to 40 people daily without an assistant. The need for a hospital became apparent and a piece of land was allocated to the Missionary Society for the purpose of building a hospital. Dr. Rainio died at Onandjokwe in January 1939 after 31 years of service, and is buried in the hospital cemetery Oniitewa with her patients and her co-workers. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Onandjokwe Lutheran Hospital」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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