Kinshasa General Hospital is a hospital in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. Before the ouster of President Mobutu Sese Seko it was known as Mama Yemo Hospital after the president's mother. The 2000 bed hospital registers over 3,000 consultations daily.^[1] It was one of the first places where AIDS was observed.

After national independence (1960), most of the hospital's Belgian physicians and surgeons returned home. After the violence attending independence had quieted, American missionary physician and surgeon Dr. William Close (1924 – 2009) became administrator of the hospital and recruited physicians from around the world. The maternity ward was upgraded and soon averaged 120 deliveries a day, second only to a hospital in Tokyo. Close also oversaw the building and management of a 700-ton hospital ship that treated people up and down the Congo River. Eventually, however, Close grew disillusioned by the growing corruption and disintegration and returned home in 1977. After Mobutu's ouster (1997), the hospital's eight operating suites were again rebuilt with Close's assistance.

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