Doctor examining child at Bulape Presbyterian Medical Center, Bulape, Congo (Democratic Republic)
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: P 3 ZAI 21.0.1 EE 72
label: General
content: Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
label: Local Note
content: 0013
label: Local Note
content: Frame value is 18.
label: Local Note
content: Slide No. P 3 ZAI 21.0.1 EE 72
name: label: Photographer
content: Elisofon, Eliot
label: Collection Photographer
content: Elisofon, Eliot
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Congo (Democratic Republic)
topic: label: Topic
content: Medicine
creator: label: Photographer
content: Elisofon, Eliot
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content: Eliot Elisofon Field collection
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content: Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Congo (Democratic Republic) / EECL / Bulape, Congo (Democratic Republic)
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Slides (photographs) (col.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1972
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA EECL 12937
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content: Archival materials
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content: Slides (photographs)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The Bulape Presbyterian Medical Center is remotely situated in the small Congolese village of Bulape located south of the equator, 380 kilometers east of Kinshasa, and 180 kilometers northwest of Kananga. Work in Bulape was begun in 1915 when missionaries came to bring the Gospel to the people of the Bakuba Kingdom. Twelve years later, a full time medical program was instituted but it was the late 1930's before the first permanent hospital buildings were constructed. Expansion continued throughout the 1940's and 1950's and today the Bulape Presbyterian Medical Center includes an operating theater, maternity unit, pediatric ward, laboratory, outpatient dispensary, and a pharmacy. While it has grown considerably, Bulape Hospital still struggles to provide services under difficult conditions. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for National Geographic and traveled to Africa from January 19, 1972 to mid April 1972.