BY BEATRICE PHILEMON
25th September 2013
The equipment includes two incubators for pre-mature babies, two stretchers that would be used for short-term carrying of patients who require medical care and one electronic delivery bed with mattress.
The equipment was handed over to the Regional Medical Officer (RMO) Dr Beatrice Byalugaba by the Medewell’s Project Coordinator Amina Ramadhan over the weekend.
“We have decided to provide the said equipment after identifying that Tumbi hospital has many patients who don’t have enough hospital equipments,” she said.
In providing health services to the community, there is a need to have strong relationship between government hospitals and charitable health facilities because we all serve people.
She said that there is a new strategy designed to improve public-private partnership between government hospitals and charity health facilities so that they can improve health performance within their working areas.
According to Amina, through PPP, both sides may manage to understand who has experts and who has no experts, who has modern equipment and who has no modern equipment.
Apart from that, through PPP Medewell has been working very closely with various stakeholders engaging in health sector to serve Tanzanians and through this programme Medewell has performed better in the provision of health services.
She said Medewell has set up the health Centre in Kibaha district approximately 30km from Dar-es-Salaam and the Health Centre has been operating for the past eight years where some of the most common and frequent illnesses are treated.
Medewell health Centre offers twenty four hours services and it has both general wards and single bed room wards for both males and females, she explained.
The Centre caters for medical, minor surgical services particularly for cataract and trachoma.
On reproductive and child health (RCH) department, she said that among the health services which are being offered by their facility is RCH.
The centre is providing reproductive child health care as well as delivery services for twenty four hours.
SOURCE: THE GUARDIAN
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