Moundou, Chad
Clinique El Jiré-Rapha
The country of Chad has one of the lowest physican density populations on earth with only six doctors for every 100,000 people.
That puts Dr. Frederic Djongali Berniba in a unique position to effect change in his home country.
Frederic is the director is Clinique El Jiré-Rapha in Moundou, a full service medical campus in southern Chad. The clinic offers consultations, lab services, radiology, maternity, treatment rooms, a pharmacy, operating theater and chaplaincy.
El Jiré-Rapha translate as “God provides healing.”
“The association of the Gospel with all our activities and the subsidizing of all our services make us unique and is our strength,” Frederic said.
The ministry umbrella includes other facets, such as a school and a nurses training school. In 2022, the ministry opened a satellite clinic in nearby Belaba.
Dr. Frederic Berniba Djongali
About the ministry:
Name: El Jire Rapha
Location: Moundou, Chad
Director: Dr. Frederic Berniba Djongali
Partnership: 2012-present
Staff: 185
Our mission:
“To witness for Jesus Christ by works. We show the love of Jesus Christ in our activities.”
Why I love being a director:
“Being a director of a Luke Society ministry gives us a multi-fellowship in Jesus Christ throughout the world with the executive board and the other directors. We also have supporters in prayer and in all of our projects.”
About Chad:
Population: 17.4 million
Size: 1.3 million sq. km, or about three times the size of California.
Capital: N’Djamena
Borders: Cameroon, Niger and Nigeria to the west; Libya to the north; Sudan to the east; Central African Republic to the south.
Religious groups: Muslim, 52.1%; Protestant, 23.9% Catholic, 20%.
Primary language: French, Arabic
Literacy (age 15+): 22.3%
Physician density: 0.04 doctors per 1,000 people.
Population below international poverty line: 42.3%
Life expectancy: 58.7 years
Infant mortality rate: 67 deaths per 1,000 live births.
Major exports: Oil, livestock, cotton, sesame, gum arabic, shea butter.
Climate: Tropical in the south; desert in the north.
Terrain: Broad, arid plains in the center; desert in the north; mountains in the northwest; lowlands in the south.
