The Kimbanguist Hospital at Kinshasa, Zaire.

BrMed7 1990;301:1437-8 In the early 1980s the Kimbanguist Church in Zaire decided to establish a hospital in the Kimbanseke area of Kinshasa, the capital. Kimbanseke is one of the largest and most impoverished areas of Kinshasa, with a population ofabout 350 000 and an annual population growth rate of 3%. Although subject to rapid urbanisation, the district has inadequate water supplies and sewage facilities, and until the hospital was built Kimbanseke was served by only a few dispersed clinics. The Kimbanguist Church is a Catholic church established in the 1960s by Priest Simone Kimbange. It has about four million worshippers in Zaire (out of a total population of about 35 million) and another