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.
Valuable interactive skills training
Maternity Africa is currently working with its clinical staff to update their practical skills. We recently hired two midwife-mentors, and Sister Marianne from the Netherlands joined us earlier this month. She is training our own people and will develop a training...
Maternity Africa job vacancy – Country Director
Follow this link if interested.
Fistula screening trip underway
Maternity Africa's fistula screening team is currently in Dodoma Region, identifying fistula patients in rural areas up to 500km from Kivulini Maternity Centre. The team's work includes conducting awareness training about obstetric fistula, and informing people that...
2,629 deliveries in 2021, up 10% on 2020
Maternity Africa is thankful to God, its donors, staff and patients for tremendous outcomes in 2021. The number of deliveries, 2,629, increased by 10% from 2020 (2,399), 72% higher than in 2019 (1,531), the first full year of activity at Kivulini Maternity Centre....
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...
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