Kivulini Maternity Centre – News
Maternity Africa’s Kivulini Maternity Centre is located in rural Northern Tanzania, near the city of Arusha. Since ofifically opening in June 2018, the centre has provided a spectrum of quality, evidence-based maternal healthcare services. These include antenatal care, intrapartum care, postnatal care, comprehensive family planning counselling and treatment and 24-hour Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (CEmONC).
At Kivulini Maternity Centre, Maternity Africa also provides surgery for women suffering from obstetric fistula and other birth-induced injuries.
The Centre is equipped with its own laboratory, theatre, pharmacy, wards accommodating up to 56 beds, administrative offices and staff accommodations.
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.
Check out some of the latest stories from Kivulini Maternity Centre below.
Lydia, healed after 38 years of suffering from obstetric fistula
Lydia is from central Tanzania. She suffered from obstetric fistula for 38 years. Fistula ambassadors had discussed treatment with her for some time, but she did not agree to go for surgery. However, in October, Maternity Africa's fistula outreach team delivered some...
Jane, 15
Jane (not her real name) is 15 years old, the eldest of three children. She was attending secondary school. Her parents divorced because of family conflicts. Jane thinks it is because her father often got very drunk. Whenever he gets money he...
View this beautiful music video that promotes Maternity Africa’s fistula work (courtesy of Ronny Piro, featuring Neema Donatha).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAE2FbF1xGo
Local students, teachers and parents donate blood
Blood loss is common during certain surgeries. Maternity Africa relies on the local population for all-important blood donations so that we can treat our patients properly. Local international school, UWC East Africa Arusha Campus, recently organised a hugely...
Check out this video of the beautiful work undertaken by Maternity Africa (courtesy of Demi Uppelschoten).
https://youtu.be/0ULRitPqtsA
Neema, 14
Neema's stepfather raped her. She is only 14. She was taken to an orphanage, which took her to Kivulini Maternity Centre, 36 weeks pregnant. Neema does not know her biological father. According to her mother, he disappeared when Neema was very young, and her mother...
Teenager Irene
14 year old Irene was a student at a local secondary school. Her family is very poor and could not pay for her education, so her uncle brought her to Arusha from nearby Kilimanjaro Region for her to study. The man who got Irene pregnant ran off. According to Tanzanian...
Amina – 22 years with fistula
Amina is from Shinyanga in northern Tanzania and is 44 years old. She developed a fistula 22 years ago, caused by prolonged labour and because of a physical deformity that she suffered during a fall. Amina lives in a village where it is very difficult to arrange...
Australian Volunteers Program Impact Fund: COVID19 Response and Recovery
Maternity Africa is very grateful to Australian Volunteers International. A recent grant from its COVID19 Impact Fund supported Maternity Africa significantly towards the costs of purchasing cleaning agents and disinfectants and the costs of employing some of our...
Janeth – social care pack
Meet Janeth, 42 years old. She is a mother of five, aged 17, 12, 5, and newborn twins. She lives in a single room with her husband and all the children. There is one bed. The children sleep on the floor. Janeth attended Kivulini Maternity Centre for antenatal care....
Monica – successful vesico-vaginal fistula (VVF) repair
Monica, 30, delivered her first baby around five years ago by caesarean section. Three years later, at 40 weeks of her pregnancy, she started labour. However, she could not each a hospital because of transport problems. She remained in labour for more than two days....
Community outreach: Maternity Africa provides basic health education
"Sub-Saharan Africa's health challenges are numerous and wide-ranging. Most sub-Saharan countries face a double burden of traditional, persisting health challenges, such as infectious diseases, malnutrition, and child and maternal mortality, and emerging challenges...
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