Our History

Almost 30 years ago, Bethesda Mission Hospital was established to serve the Dayak tribal people of the Borneo Rainforest. Initially, the hospital had only forty beds and a limited staff of missionary doctors and nurses from the U.S.A. Hospital development has continued along the lines of an original master plan. Facilities now include 90 in-patient beds, a school of nursing, out-patient clinics, and a rural health evangelism department which serves over 70 hamlets scattered in remote areas of the rainforest where government service is scarce. More recently BMH has been reorganized as a private, Indonesia based, Christian health care facility. The foreign missionary staff now consists only of two doctors and one nurse. The Indonesian missionary staff is made up of highly dedicated and committed Christian medical doctors, a pharmacist, and several nurses with advanced training. The total hospital work force is nearly 260 people, over 70 of them being general duty nurses.

The hospital cares for an average of 2,500 out-patient visits per month and about the same number of in-patient care days. The primary target group served, the Dyak tribals, come from many parts of the province representing more than a dozen subgroups and dialects.

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