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Van Norman Clinic The Van Norman Clinic (VNC) established in 2012 as a health care outreach for Hope Africa University, is marking eight years of service. The Clinic continues to grow in its service to the local Bujumbura community. Already in 2020, it has served over 25,000 individual patients in general medicine, gynecology and obstetrics, pediatrics, internal medicine, dentistry, and surgery. Paramedical services are available in family planning, vaccinations, pharmacy, radiology, and community medicine. The average monthly patient population is close to 5,500 and increasing. Over the last two years, the clinic has seen an increase in the number of children under 10 it is serving and is giving more attention to its pediatric services.

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