In the Sint Kizito hospital, operations take place daily in two operating theaters. There is a small treatment room where minor procedures are performed such as wound treatments and curettages for women with a miscarriage. In addition, in the nineties, thanks to the support of the Morogoro Support Foundation, a large operating room was realized where larger operations take place. Often several caesarean sections are performed in one day. But also abdominal operations, inguinal hernia operations and the removal of tumors. The OR obviously plays a major role in the treatment of large numbers of serious traffic victims, which unfortunately occurs frequently in Tanzania. This “large” operating theater is now in urgent need of renovation. A proper recovery room (recovery room) must be realized in order to meet the requirements of the Tanzanian government. Many equipment, such as an operating lamp, is no longer working. Often surgery is performed with sparse light such as a flashlight. To be able to work as sterile as possible, the air conditioning should be replaced. At the moment there is no possibility for anesthesia and artificial respiration. There are trained nurse anesthetists in the hospital, but up to now there is no ventilator. Currently, the operations take place under local anesthesia or with the drug Ketamine. As a result, abdominal operations can be performed less safely and, for example, neck operations are not possible. Sterilization equipment for the instruments and surgical drapes and clothing are indispensable for safe operation. Unfortunately, the current equipment is no longer reliable, despite several repairs. A new sterilization device must be purchased in order to operate safely and to reduce the number of post-operative infections.

The MSF would like to call on you for the expansion and replacement of necessary equipment and the structural adaptation of the operating theater.

In Mikumi the water pump has been replaced because the old pump only gave half the capacity. Also be together with the people of the technical service, various overdue maintenance work carried out, such as on the roofs of various buildings and cars, is skewed dropped containers at the administration building and the roof has been repaired. Here too, with the help of a donation from the Imelda-Nolet Foundation, the batteries are in 3 buildings of the solar lighting, so that you can work with normal lighting at night again instead of with flashlights.

By opening an X-ray department, patients no longer need to be referred to another hospital far away. The Hospital can ask about € 8 for an X-ray and can do about 15 in a day. That is still € 120 per day, which is quite an amount here and helps alleviate the financial problems again.