{"id":79041,"date":"2025-07-13T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=79041"},"modified":"2025-07-11T15:10:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T13:10:42","slug":"four-years-of-bringing-healthcare-to-rural-areas-of-equatorial-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2025\/07\/13\/four-years-of-bringing-healthcare-to-rural-areas-of-equatorial-guinea\/","title":{"rendered":"Four years of bringing healthcare to rural areas of Equatorial Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ebibey\u00edn is a city that has, for the past four years, been the place where the NGO OVA carried out medical campaigns. Founded by four young people, NGO OVA focuses on healthcare and health education for communities with limited resources and restricted access to medical centers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The majority of their medical work is in the Angokong Health Center, located in the Diocese of Ebibey\u00edn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MANUEL SILVESTRE<br>Doctor and founder of OVA NGO<br><\/strong><em>From there, our base, we travel to different villages deep in the jungle of Ebibey\u00edn, so to speak. We hold medical consultations and provide training on disease prevention, because one really important thing there is that the general population lacks health education. As a result, many diseases stem directly from that lack of education.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Years of work have left their mark on both the local community and the doctors themselves, who have experienced deeply human encounters. Silvestre shared one such story:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MANUEL SILVESTRE<br>Doctor and founder of OVA NGO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>There was one person I remember who had a skin infection on her leg. A really nasty ulcer was forming\u2026 she was in pretty bad shape. We treated her, followed up, gave her antibiotics \u2014 it was a full treatment process. Then we left. Three years later, we saw that woman again. We didn\u2019t even remember her, because we see so many patients each day in Equatorial Guinea. But she remembered us \u2014 and she was completely healed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Collaboration with the local archdiocese has been key to the project\u2019s development. In fact, their support was exactly the help OVA needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NICOL\u00c1S BAQUERO<br>Marketing Director, Eme de Mar<br><\/strong><em>Our relationship with the Archdiocese of Ebibey\u00edn is very close. Not only have they seen all the work OVA has done, but they also make it possible for us to access those health centers. Ebibey\u00edn isn\u2019t a single village. It's an archdiocese, and many hospitals and health centers fall directly under its jurisdiction. So naturally, our relationship with them is direct.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Baquero also emphasized the impact OVA has had on access to healthcare:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NICOL\u00c1S BAQUERO<br>Marketing Director, Eme de Mar<br><\/strong><em>It has been truly remarkable to see that so many people have been able to receive care in those health centers, where waiting lists are extremely long or where patients often can\u2019t be seen at all.<\/em><br>The future of NGO is to remain committed to improving healthcare in Equatorial Guinea.<br>BAM<br>Trans. 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