Clinique Médicale Maigari
Madaoua, Niger
Like an unfashioned lump of clay on a potter’s wheel, Assoumane Mahamadou is simply a vessel willing to be molded.
Today, the Lord is using Assoumane and his clinic to reach thousands with the Gospel in Niger, a country that is 98-percent Muslim.
Clinique Médicale Maigari has grown from one man with a vision and dream to a ministry that now has eight employees. The clinic offers outpatient consultations, lab testing, maternity services and a pharmacy. It’s the only clinic in Madaoua equipped with an ultrasound machine.
Each week day a prayer team meets to lift up the needs of the ministry and pray for patients.
“We pray that our ministry will be a center of reference through prayer and health care to the population for the glory of the Lord,” Assoumane said. “We pray for the physical and spiritual healing of the sick.”
The Jesus Film also plays on loop in the waiting room so patients can be introduced to a new and full life in Jesus.
Name: Clinique Médicale Maigari
Location: Madaoua, Niger
Director: Assoumane Mahamadou
Partnership: 2010-present
Staff: 10.
About the ministry
About Niger
Population: 23.6 million
Size: 1.3 million sq. km, or about twice the size of Texas.
Capital: Niamey
Borders: Burkina Faso and Mali to the west; Algeria and Libya to the north; Chad to the east; Nigeria and Benin to the south.
Religious groups: Muslim, 99.3%; Christian, 0.3%
Primary language: French
Literacy (age 15+): 35.1%
Physician density: 0.04 doctors per 1,000 people.
Population below international poverty line: 40.8%
Life expectancy: 59.7 years
Infant mortality rate: 68.1 deaths per 1,000 live births.
Major exports: Uranium ore, livestock, cowpeas, onions.
Climate: Desert; mostly hot, dry and dusty; tropical in the extreme south.
Terrain: Mostly desert plains and sand dunes; flat to rolling plains in the south; hills in the north.
