KIVULINI MATERNITY CENTRE
Maternity Africa’s Kivulini Maternity Centre is located near the city of Arusha in Northern Tanzania. 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 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 48 bed, administrative offices and staff accommodation.
Thanks to the generosity of Maternity Africa’s 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.
Surprised by Joy
My name is Joy. I am 18 years old, married at 16 and got pregnant at 17. I went into labour and lasted for four days without any kind of help. There is no health centre in our remote village so my mother called for a local midwife to come. She said there was no way to...
Pudol
After leaving Maternity Africa, Dr. Andrew went to South Sudan and operated on 30 women with birth related injuries including obstetric fistula. One of the ladies was Pudol. She is from the north and delivered her 6th child two years ago after a three day labour. He...
MAMA ZELLY
Zelly is the head of our labour ward here at Kivulini and is affectionately known by many as Mama. She has been a nurse and midwife for 32 years and has been with us at Kivulini since we opened in June 2018. Before that, she worked with Maternity Africa for a number...
153 Deliveries
Last month here in Kivulini, we are delighted to have reached our highest number of deliveries within a month. We celebrate the high standard of care that our staff are committed to and the enormous work that has gone into attaining this outcome. We are well on the...
Beginning of a week of hope at Maternity Africa
It's going to be a busy week at our hospital in Arusha, Tanzania. We have over 40 fistula patients to operate on, all with dreadful injuries. All had labours lasting up to a week all delivered stillborn children, all are leaking urine and or faeces every minute of the...
Fistula Camp build up
This week we are delighted to have patients arriving from all over Tanzania to attend our 3rd fistula camp of 2019.These ladies have enjoyed joining together with others who have had similar experiences of the same debilitating condition. It’s wonderful to see them...
What A Picture
Here in Kivulini we continue to seek opportunities to develop the skills of our dedicated staff. Currently we have four of our clinical team undergoing training in ultrasound scanning. We are delighted to have Kath Devonald visiting as a volunteer. She is a very...
Casting The Net On Our Fistula Outreach Programme
In order for Maternity Africa to run a successful, high quality fistula outreach programme, we rely on the generosity of donors, supporters and partnerships. We are delighted that in June this year we formed a new relationship with NOMAD TRUST, who run a very...
Being The Best You Can Be
Here in Kivulini, one of our goals is for staff within the centre to be the best they can be. We continue to make staff development a priority through an in-house training programme for both clinical and administrative staff. The clinical training has been part of the...
Emergency Care in the Air
This week in Kivulini we were faced with many more obstetric emergencies. Women arrive at all hours of the day from all the rural communities that surround us. Mostly they are unannounced so we always have to be in a state of readiness in the maternity unit. On Monday...
Hadija
Hadija is only eight years old. She fell and was impaled on a stick injuring her urethra and causing a large fistula. Leaking urine continually she was teased and unable to go to school. After suffering for six months, she was found by our outreach team and brought to...
Outpatients Clinic At Kivulini
We are delighted that here in Kivulini Maternity Centre we are having more and more women attending for free, quality antenatal, postnatal and family planning care. The rural community around the centre is demonstrating trust by attending for these outpatient...
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