Tag Archives: Tanzania

April 2017 thecitizen; The ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children in partnership with the GE Foundation and Safe Surgery 2020 is working on a strategic plan to transform surgical services in the country. Speaking during the launch of the National Surgical, Obstetrics and Anaesthesia Plan Technical Working …

March 2017 VOA; Tanzania has announced a plan to send 500 doctors to Kenya after a doctors’ strike paralyzed health services in the neighboring country for months. Kenyan doctors, however, say the government should not hire any foreign doctors but instead employ the more than 1,000 trained physicians who are …

January 2017   thecitizen; Health minister Ummy Mwalimu informed the Parliamentary Committee on Social Services and Community Development that the proposed Medical, Dental and Allied Health Professionals Bill, would address legal challenges faced by professionals as well as revolutionise the health sector in the country. The Bill, which was tabled for …

Janury 2017 DailyNews;The government is finalising essential procedures for harmonising medical treatment costs in both private and public hospitals as one of the key measures to ensure fair and quality in offering medical services. The Permanent Secretary (PS) in the Ministry of Health, Community, Development, Gender, Elders and Children, Dr …

December 2016 devex; Tanzania’s new digital health road map offers a pioneering example of “putting national government in the driver’s seat” and of systems based approaches to e-health, experts say. Tanzanian officials unveiled the investment road map, which outlines a range of digital health interventions for using data to improve …

December 2016 TheCitizen; In our healthcare system where out-of-pocket payment system is prevalent, it is very common for clients to use cash in making payments for the healthcare services. But as the adoption of information technology and communication (ICT) use in healthcare increases, cash payment systems are now becoming obsolete. …

November 2016 TheCitizen: Local specialists at Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH), in collaboration with surgeons from St John of God Hospital in Australia, yesterday performed a rare microvascular surgery on a 35-year-old man by transferring small muscles of blood vessels from the upper part of the leg to the lower part. …

November 2016 DailyNews; The government yesterday expressed commitment to collaborate with councils to ensure that the purchase of ambulances are the top priority in the 2017/18 budgets to improve public health. The commitment was given here by the Deputy Minister of State in the President’s Office, Regional Administration and Local …

November 2016 ThomsonReutersF; Tanzania has suspended community-based HIV/AIDS prevention programs for gay men, the health minister said on Monday, in the latest crackdown on the high-risk group. Ummy Mwalimu, Tanzania’s minister for health said the government had received reports that some local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) were promoting and normalizing same-sex …

October 2016 EastAfrican; Sixteen-year-old Sumeiya Abdi has not been in school since 2013. She is among the patients hooked onto the 20 dialysis machines at the Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi — the country’s chief referral and teaching institution — to help them manage acute and chronic kidney disease. Acute …