Posted Aug 11 2009 10:34AM
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) -- Former professional basketball star Dikembe Mutombo has given U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton a guided tour of a hospital he founded in his native Congo.
Mutombo, who played 18 seasons in the NBA, Monday smiled playfully at infants in a maternity ward and explained why he donated $19 million of his own money to fund the Kinshasa facility named for his late mother.
The 42-year-old Mutombo said: "We think that Congolese people deserve better health care and we hope that what we are doing here is setting an example so that people can have hope."
Dwarfed by the 7-foot-2 Mutombo, Clinton was clearly impressed by the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital, opened in December 2007.
Mutombo built the hospital after his mother died in 1998 because a curfew stopped her getting to hospital.
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