MUSTANGH Foundation

MUSTANGH Foundation is an humanitarian student organisation who tries to create a win-win situation for the West Gonja Hospital as well as for Dutch students, with the aim of supporting and improving healthcare in Ghana. Gaël Pennings and Noëmi Nijsten established MUSTANGH Foundation; Maastricht University Students Twinning A North Ghanaian Hospital. MUSTANGH has been active since 2003 and since then MUSTANGH is connected to the institute of education of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML) and the University of Maastricht (UM). At the moment MUSTANGH mainly focuses on education and support. We support the West Gonja Hospital (WGH) both financially as materially. At the moment we mainly focus our support on projects relating to the education of the staff of the WGH. We belief that this will be the most durable way to improve the health care in the north of Ghana. With education we try to create a situation in which both parties involved have an advantage. We give medical students of the university of Maastricht the opportunity to do an internship in Ghana during the last year of their training. This will result in a good learning opportunity for the Dutch students and at the same time this will lead to an increase in manpower and knowledge in the WGH. At the moment our main projects are the education of two gynecologists, a anesthesiologist and two physician assistants.