Korea-Tanzania Friendship Chanika Maternity Hospital
THE multi-billion shillings ultra-modern maternity hospital that has been built at Chanika on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam, to offer maternal and newborn services, will begin operations next week.
The Korea-Tanzania Friendship Chanika
Maternity Hospital, constructed at a cost of 8bn/- supported by the
Republic of Korea through Korea International Cooperation Agency
(KOICA), is aimed at reducing maternal and infant mortality in the
country.
Speaking in Dar es Salaam during a tour
of the hospital yesterday, the Ambassador of the Republic of South Korea
to Tanzania, Mr Geum Young, pledged that his country will continue to
support Tanzania in various sectors including health.
“We will continue to support Chanika and
Mloganzira hospitals in order to help the government of Tanzania
improve health services. The governments of these two countries will
promote cordial relationships and cooperate in various development
issues,” he stressed.
The Dar es Salaam Regional Commissioner
(RC), Mr Paul Makonda and other government leaders were also part of the
delegation that visited the hospital, which will be officially launched
in October, this year, when the KOICA President is pencilled to visit
the country.
Mr Makonda thanked the Korean government
for the support and urged service providers at the hospital to offer
friendly services to patients and be organised to make sure it delivers
as intended.
“Expectant mothers and newborn children
have been facing a number of challenges related to health services such
as sharing beds ... this will never happen at this new facility.
The hospital has been designed to offer
friendly maternal and newborn services,” he said. The hospital project
designed under the slogan, “One Mother One Bed” has been fixed with
high-tech equipment among others Obstetrics and Gynaecology Ultrasound,
X-rays and ECG machine and KOICA had already conducted capacity building
to more than 70 medical personnel to operate the machines and provide
services to mothers and infants.
At the same occasion, the Regional
Medical Officer, Dr Grace Magembe, said 78 staff had already reported to
the hospital and assured that they would work according to their
ethics, in order to make sure patients get better health services.
She said that the 160-bed capacity
hospital would provide emergency and basic obstetric care and other
important services such as anaesthesia. “One of the components of the
capacity building is customer care ... we want the staff of this
hospital to have good customer care for improved service delivery,” Ms
Magembe added.
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