Mawenzi Regional Hospital is located in the very centre of Moshi town
in the north eastern part of Tanzania, close to the Kenyan border. The
hospital has a connection with Norway, which sends some of its
physiotherapy students for short rotations at the hospital.
Mawenzi has quite a long history, starting as a medical dispensary in the 1920s before being upgraded to a hospital in 1956, but after the opening of the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre in Moshi, the hospital became underfunded, though it is still quite big and busy. Nevertheless, it is still the second largest hospital of the Kilimanjaro area.
It provides a range of services across several departments. These departments are made up of medical wards, surgical wards, a pediatric ward, a physiotherapy unit, which has two inhouse physiotherapists, a gynaecological and prenatal ward, which includes a labour ward, a HIV-unit, tuberculosis clinic, X-ray, a laboratory, and is offering tropical medicine. The hospital also caters for about 300 outpatients each day. Overall, it Mawenzi regional Hospital has started already before 1920 as a small
military dispensary for German soldiers. 1956 the dispensary became a
hospital. 1970’s KCMC, (Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center) a big
university hospital was opened in Moshi and after that all the support
and development was concentrated there and Mawenzi stayed behind without
support and funds. But it was still very busy and big hospital.
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There
are altogether 447 workers in the hospital, 152 nurses and over 20
doctors. There are about 300 beds. You can find all the most common
departments in Mawenzi, medical wards, surgical wards, pediatric ward,
physiotherapy unit where there are 2 physiotherapists, gynecological and
prenatal ward where there is also labor ward, HIV-unit, tuberculosis
clinic, X-ray unit and a laboratory.
In addition to the wards there are more than 300 out-patients in the hospital every day. About
50 of them will be admitted to the hospital daily. In the pediatric
ward there are 60 beds but there can sleep up to 4 kids in one bed. So
the amount of patients in the pediatric ward can easily rise up to 200.
In labor ward there are more than 40 beds and several deliveries every
day.
Mawenzi hospital is very busy and a lot of
things are going on all the time. The workers of the hospital speak
English and there has been foreigners working in the hospital before so
they are already used to working with foreigners. This makes Mawenzi
hospital a very good practical training placement
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