A year-end campaign for Kapsowar Mission Hospital
Help bring reliable oxygen to every patient who needs it.
Kapsowar Mission Hospital is preparing to produce oxygen on site - but the system needs permanent structures and reliable backup power. Your gift can help bring oxygen directly to patients’ bedsides and keep lifesaving care running when the electricity fails.
OUR GOAL BY DECEMBER 31
$120,000
Precious could not breathe on her own.
She was only six months old when severe pneumonia left her fighting for every breath.
For three days, Precious needed the highest level of oxygen Kapsowar could provide. Without it, her doctors believe she would not have survived.
Precious recovered. But the oxygen that kept her alive came from portable cylinders—part of a system vulnerable to shortages, delivery delays, and cylinders running empty.
For children like Precious, oxygen cannot depend on the next cylinder arriving in time.
WHY RELIABLE OXYGEN MATTERS
Oxygen arrives on cylinder at a time.
THE PROBLEM TODAY
MOVE IT
Each cylinder must be transported through the hospital by hand.
REPLACE IT
When one runs empty, someone from the two-person biomedical team must stop and replace it—assuming another cylinder is available.
REPEAT IT
Kapsowar uses around 200 cylinders every month, at a cost of approximately $4,600.
The cylinders come from one supplier an hour and a half away. Countywide shortages, supply interruptions, or a broken delivery truck can leave Kapsowar without an independent source.
There have been days when staff have borrowed cylinders from a smaller nearby facility just to keep oxygen flowing.
No patient's care should depend on whether a delivery truck arrives or the electricity stays on.
Five years ago, Kapsowar operated at about 40% inpatient capacity. Today, it is routinely full, and its newborn unit often cares for more than 30 babies at once. The hospital has grown—but its dependence on portable cylinders has not changed.
200
oxygen cylinders used in an average month
$4,600
spent on cylinders alone each month
30+
babies cared for in the newborn unit alone, often on oxygen
ONE CONNECTED SOLUTION
Mockup of proposed oxygen plant and structure
Reliable oxygen needs reliable power.
African Mission Healthcare is providing an oxygen plant large enough to serve patients throughout the growing hospital. Friends of Kapsowar is raising the funds needed to house it, connect it to the wards, and keep it running when the grid fails.
02
Install two generators
One 100 kW generator can efficiently carry the usual load. Both can run together when demand is high, and either can keep working while the other is serviced.
01
Build two structures
Purpose-built housing will protect both the generators and oxygen equipment and give staff safe places to operate them.
03
Bring oxygen bedside
Piping will carry oxygen directly from the plant to the wards, replacing the hospital’s dependence on portable cylinders.
Care becomes safer, steadier, and ready to grow.
WHAT CHANGES
✓ A reliable, on-site oxygen supply for every department
✓ Oxygen piped directly to wards
✓ Backup power for the entire hospital
✓ Money saved for the hospital in purchase of cylinders
✓ Ability to expand critical care for the hospital
A complete system—not just one piece of it.
THE CAMPAIGN
African Mission Healthcare is providing the oxygen plant. This campaign funds the infrastructure required to put it to work.
Two structures
$41,000
Two generators, transport & installation
$57,000
Piping & cabling
22,000
Total campaign goal
$120,000
Registered 501(c)(3)
Project updates shared with donors
Coordinated with hospital leadership
You can help put this system to work.
YOUR PART IS SIMPLE
When you give, Friends of Kapsowar directs your gift toward the connected oxygen and power project and keeps you updated as the work moves forward.
1
Choose your gift
Every gift moves the connected project closer to completion.
2
We build the system
Funds provide the structures, generators, piping, cabling, and installation.
3
Patients breathe easier
Reliable oxygen and power strengthen care throughout the hospital.
POWER THE HOSPITAL. BRING OXYGEN BEDSIDE.
Help make sure oxygen is there when a patient needs it.
Your gift today moves the entire connected project forward—for Precious, for the next child struggling to breathe, and for every patient whose care depends on reliable oxygen and power.
Give by December 31 to help complete the $120,000 campaign.
Gifts support the structures, generators, piping, cabling, installation, and related infrastructure. Funds received beyond this campaign's needs—or if circumstances prevent part of the project—will support other critical infrastructure needs at Kapsowar Mission Hospital.