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Haydom
Lutheran Hospital
HLH is situated in the south west corner of the
Mbulu District. It therefore bounders on other districts like
Hanang, Iramba, Singida Rural and Meatu districts. In practice the
hospital serves 5 districts, though 3 of these districts have
district hospitals of their own. With the limited Government health
budget, , and the subsequent shortage of drugs and equipment, Haydom
has received many patients who could not be treated in these
government hospitals.
Haydom Lutheran Hospital (HLH) was first built
by the Norwegian Lutheran Mission in 1953 at the request of the then
existing government authorities with a capacity of 50 beds. It is
about 80 km. south -west of district headquarters and about 300 km.
from Arusha which is the main town and regional centre. (See map)
Government wanted to develop the area ,cleared for tze tze asked
mission to build.
Mvumi Hospital
Mvumi
Hospital is a church hospital situated in the village of Mvumi
Mission in Central Tanzania and is run under the auspices of the
Anglican Diocese of Central
Tanganyika. The hospital provides health care for the population of
Dodoma Rural District where the average life expectancy is only 46
years and over 25% of children die before the age of five. This is
one of the poorest regions in the world with an estimated "income" per capita of
less than 100 $ U.S. (1991/1992) which includes the
market value of all economic activities such as food production,
brewing, honey collecting, cattle rearing and wood gathering
(Holtland,
1994). Mvumi Hospital is the only hospital in Dodoma Rural
District and caters to the needs of over 400,000 people.
Mvumi
Mission has a population of about 10,000 people and is situated 42
km south east of Dodoma, the capital of Tanzania. This web site is
designed to provide news of the work being carried out at the
hospital and in the surrounding countryside for those who have
worked in Mvumi, and also to provide an insight into the life of the
people in one of the poorest parts of the world for those who are
interested and, hopefully, for those who are not.
Selian Lutheran
Hosptital
Selian Lutheran Hospital is a semi-urban hospital of the
Evangelical Lutheran
Church of Tanzania - Diocese in Arusha Region
(ELCT-DAR). It is located near
the village of Ngaramtoni within the Arumeru District of the Arusha
Region. The health work of the hospital was begun in the 1950's and
has grown from a dispensary with a single building and ten beds into
a 120 bed, full-service hospital offering outpatient and inpatient
services including medicine, pediatric, general and specialty
surgical, obstetric, maternal and child health, hospice and orphan
care.
Selian Lutheran Hospital serves an immediate catchment area
consisting mainly of a government ward with a population of
approximately 200,000 people. The hospital and its clinic, the
Arusha Town Clinic, also serve as the main referral resources for
the entire urban area of Arusha, a catchment area of over a million
people.
Disability Hospital Dar es
Salaam
The vision of the
CCBRT Disability Hospital is to facilitate that disabled people in
Tzania, regardless of their socio-economic status, have access to
high-quality, comprehensive and equitable care and rehabilitation.
The CCBRT Disability Hospital aims to provide a model of an urban
hospital in Africa that is accessible to rich and poor. CCBRT
develops appropriate, accessible and sustainable health care systems
and also trains management and other staff for programs that share
the same aims
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