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Inpatients Visits
Imaging-Ultrasound
Inpatients Visits
Deliveries are carried out by the nurse midwife and/or nurse assistant. Patients typically leave the clinic the day after delivery. When needed, an ambulance is called from Shirati Hospital to transport labor patients in need of advanced services such as Cesarean Section.
Outpatient Visits
Imaging-Ultrasound
Inpatients Visits
Regular outpatient visits totaled 2,269 visits in December 2015 compared to 2,212 visits, the prior year. Our challenges involve treating: Malaria, Schistosomiasis (contracted by fresh water contact) and Soil Transmitted Helminths plus Amebiasis together or separately produce the most commonly treated symptom complexes in the clinic, Peptic Ulcer Disease, Sexually Transmitted Illness, HIV and Tuberculosis. Treatment of TB is free of charge in Tanzania.
Imaging-Ultrasound
Imaging-Ultrasound
Burkitt’s Lymphoma (BL)
Imaging-Ultrasound is available for scanning of general abdominal and obstetric patients. The BL patients residing at the clinic get frequent follow-ups of their tumor regression by ultrasound. One routine ultrasound on every pregnant patient is done as part of the second antenatal visit, free of charge
Burkitt’s Lymphoma (BL)
Male Circumcision Project
Burkitt’s Lymphoma (BL)
Burkitt’s Lymphoma (BL) Treatment
(the most common childhood cancer in East Africa) - Children suspected of having BL cancer areferred to Bugando Medical Center for investigations, confirmation of diagnosis, and initial treatment. For the five followup treatment cycles they return to our facility.
EMBLEM Study
Male Circumcision Project
Male Circumcision Project
Burkitt’s Lymphoma (BL) Research - was a case control research study of the childhood BL cancer, a three country study including Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya, funded by NCI in Washington, DC, USA.
This study has been concluded at our site. Future study is planned for followup in the future.
Male Circumcision Project
Male Circumcision Project
Male Circumcision Project
Male Circumcision Project (“Tohara Project”) is funded through partners of Association of Private Health Facilities in Tanzania (APHFTA) and USAID. We undertook a large campaign in May 2015 based at many health facilities in Rorya District, North Mara Region and a total of over 3,000 procedures were done in just under three month. This procedure is done as part of HIV prevention.
Reproductive and Child Health (RCH)
The Rubella Vaccine & Measles
The Rubella Vaccine & Measles
The Rubella Vaccine & Measles
The Rubella Vaccine and Measles are given to babies at 9 months and again at 18 months of age. This program became a routine part of immunizations, after the introductory mass campaigns in 2014.
Administering Oral Vitamin A
The Rubella Vaccine & Measles
The Rubella Vaccine & Measles
Childhood Immunizations are provided free of charge, mostly through multiple visits during the first year of life. Vaccines are against Polio, Diphtheria, Pertussis, Tetanus, Hepatitis B, Pneumococcus, TB, and Measles.
Antenatal Care
The Rubella Vaccine & Measles
Antenatal Care
Antenatal Care is provided free of charge to patients, as per Tanzanian government policy. This ideally includes screening for HIV and Syphilis, Tetanus immunization, Iron and Folic Acid to combat Anemia, and deworming medication.