LATEST NEWS FROM KIVULINI MATERNITY CENTRE
Maternity Africa’s Kivulini Maternity Centre is located in rural Northern Tanzania, near the city of Arusha. It opened officially in June 2018, and provides a spectrum of good, evidence-based maternal healthcare services. These include antenatal care, intrapartum care, postnatal care and comprehensive family planning counselling and treatment. 24-hour Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (CEmONC) is available on site.
At Kivulini Maternity Centre, Maternity Africa also provides surgery for ladies suffering from obstetric fistula and other birth-induced injuries.
Kivulini Maternity Centre is equipped with its own laboratory, theatre, pharmacy, wards accommodating up to 56 beds, administrative offices and staff accommodation.
Thanks to the kindness of Maternity Africa’s generous donors, all of the services are provided free of charge to the vulnerable and marginalised women and girls of childbearing age treated at Kivulini Maternity Centre.
Please read some of the latest stories from Kivulini Maternity Centre below.
Maternal healthcare in Sub-Saharan Africa in the face of COVID-19
Recent headline figures from Health Action International indicate far-reaching problems arising for women in Sub-Saharan Africa as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic: More women will give birth at home and at other riskier settings because of transport restrictions and...
International Day to End Obstetric Fistula: Eradicating Obstetric Fistula During COVID-19
For International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, Maternity Africa's Founder, Dr Andrew Browning AM, shares some of his thoughts on the challenges facing fistula treatment during the Covid-19 pandemic: https://www.figo.org/eradicating-obstetric-fistula-during-covid-19...
Celebrating International Nurses Day
Celebrating International Nurses Day earlier this week, Maternity Africa's Kivulini Maternity Centre continued providing pre- and post-natal care, and delivering babies. Pictured is Rozalia, one of our nurses, who also celebrated with others in the nearby city of...
Openness, care and continuous improvement
Maternity Africa recently hired a new doctor-in-charge at Kivulini Maternity Centre. After his orientation, he formalised a system of morning reporting. In attendance each day are the clinical supervisors, doctors, Country Director, matron, nurse training facilitator...
Rehema
This is Rehema, forty years old and the third of three wives. Her husband is 70 years old. She lives around 120 kilometres from Maternity Africa's Kivulini Maternity Centre, and decided to come here to have her baby because she heard that it is a safe place to...
World Day for Safety and Health at Work
Maternity Africa recognises the great challenge that governments, donors, other employers, workers and communities are facing worldwide to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Today is the World Day for Safety and Health at Work. Working with some generous donors, Maternity...
Saving a mother’s life
Sometimes Maternity Africa's clinical staff must deal with emergency, life-threatening situations. Nayo (30) is the mother of four children and lives with her husband. She attended school until grade seven, but her education stopped then because her parents could not...
Maternity Africa 2019 Annual Report now available
Maternity Africa is delighted to publish its Annual Report for 2019, its first full calendar year of activities at Kivulini Maternity Centre. The report is available here:...
Jewel
Maternity Africa continues to provide maternity services all year round, and Easter time is no exception. Jewel (22) attended school until form three, but stopped at that point because she wished to marry. She became pregnant last year and attended a local health...
Giving birth during the Coronavirus crisis
Women need to give birth safely, regardless of external circumstances. As Tanzania puts precautions in place to help limit the spread of COVID-19, Maternity Africa continues to provide maternity care for poor women, although fistula surgery is currently suspended....
Maternity Africa 2020 Quarter 1 year-on-year deliveries increase by over 50%
Maternity Africa is delighted with its maternity outcomes for the first three months of 2020 - 490 deliveries, an increase of almost 53% from the 321 deliveries for the first three months of 2019. The results include a new monthly record of 178 deliveries in March...
Hope for the vulnerable
Some patients that Maternity Africa cares for come from particularly sad backgrounds. One such example was Julie, a 19 year old girl. Julie did not even realise that she was pregnant, believing that she was still a virgin. Julie’s parents took her to the home...
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