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.
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...
Hitting New Heights
All of Maternity Africa’s donors and supporters are the lifeblood of Maternity Africa. Recently we had one special visitor who got to see first hand how her fundraising effort made a difference in women’s lives. Sarah, a high school student, fundraised US$5,200 to...
Emergency Care Saves Lives
Over the last year the team in Kivulini have become very experienced in giving emergency obstetric care. We have learned together how to organize urgent emergencies and have put into place lifesaving procedures that are defining the high standard of care within the...
Serving Teenegers
Hannah is 18 years old and lives with her parents in a village on the rural outskirts of Arusha. She is the 7th of 9 children. She completed standard primary education. Hannah is now 8 months pregnant and attended the antenatal clinic with her mum. This was not a...
Doctor Doreen: saving precious lives
Meet Maternity Africa's Doctor Doreen Moshi. Doctor Doreen is an Assistant Medical Officer at Kivulini Maternity Centre, and one of our leading doctors. Doctor Doreen qualified as a General Practitioner at the Tanzanian Training Centre for International Health, then...
THREE WORLDS COLLIDE
Bibi Lucy is unsure about her age. She was pregnant during the time that the first president of Tanzania was in power. She delivered her baby by operation and following this was left with a fistula. The baby didn’t survive. She...
Saving lives by giving blood
Today is World Blood Donor Day. According to the World Health Organization, the event serves to thank voluntary, unpaid blood donors for their life-saving gifts of blood. It also raises awareness of the need for regular blood donations to ensure that all individuals...
Kivulini Maternity Centre: first year celebration
Although Maternity Africa was founded in 2013 initially to serve patients at other hospitals, its own new 48-bed facility, Kivulini Maternity Centre opened officially on 9 June 2018. We celebrated the Centre's first birthday on Sunday, with Arusha House Church....
Celebrating our 1,000th delivery
Hannah delivered her bouncing baby at Maternity Africa's Kivulini Maternity Centre on 31 May. We are delighted that this is a celebration of another safe delivery, and the 1,000th delivery since 28 May 2018, when we had our first one in the brand new hospital....
Cooking nutritious food for our patients
The World Health Organization states that ''access to sufficient amounts of safe and nutritious food is key to sustaining life and promoting good health.'' Today, World Food Safety Day, we thank our wonderful kitchen staff who cook three delicious, nutritious meals...
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