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.
Learning valuable new skills in the Maternity Africa pharmacy
Faraja, David and Reuben are students of pharmacy at Decca College of Health and Allied Sciences (DECOHAS), located in Dodoma, the capital city of Tanzania. They spent six weeks on placement at Maternity Africa's pharmacy, part of the Kivulini Maternity Centre...
Promise: her wonderful story of healing and hope
Promise attended our fistula camp in March. This is her story. My name is Promise. I am 45 years old. I got married when I was 18. That is when I had my first child. After some time, I got pregnant again and that’s how I got fistula. I...
Hosiana helps our teenager mums
It was super having Hosiana with us for seven weeks for the fieldwork aspect of her college course. She spent time across many of our departments at Kivulini Maternity Centre, including fistula, family planning and maternity. Many vulnerable and marginalised teenage...
Reaching rural communities
This is Lucas Toroya, Maternity Africa's Outreach Coordinator. Lucas is a social worker, and is very familiar with cultural and health-related matters across Tanzania. This fortnight, Lucas is in Simiyu, a neighbouring region where some estimates report that only 42%...
Great news for our American donors
US-based donors can now make tax deductible contributions to the Maternity Africa (USA) Fund through our partner, King Baudouin Foundation United States (KBFUS). KBFUS is a public charity within the meaning of Sections 501(c)(3) and 509(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue...
Dr Andrew – new Chairman of FIGO Committee
FIGO is the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics. It brings together professional societies of obstetricians and gynecologists on a global basis. FIGO is dedicated to the improvement of women’s health and rights and to the reduction of disparities in...
World Health Day – great quarterly results
Sunday celebrated Word Health Day. Universal health coverage is the World Health Organization's number one goal. Key to achieving it is ensuring that everyone can obtain the care they need, when they need it, right in the heart of the community. Maternity Africa...
Thamarati – making the hospital beautiful
Many people work behind the scenes at Kivulini Maternity Centre. They all have valuable roles, making childbirth safe. This is Thamarati. She is a 22 years old, and is our gardener. When it is hot and dry, Thamarati works hard watering our plants and gardens,...
Maternity Africa is delighted to share its 2018 Annual Report
It is with great joy that Maternity Africa publishes its Annual Report for 2018. 2018 was a major year for us - from occupying the land to offering jobs and arranging orientation and training for our people to officially opening Kivulini Maternity Centre in June and...
New record of safe deliveries in March
Maternity Africa is thankful for its new record number of deliveries in a month - 110 in March, with 111 babies born. All of the mothers are safe. Thank you especially to all of our dedicated staff who work so hard at Kivulini Maternity Centre, Tanzania, caring for...
UK Mother’s Day!
It was a joy to welcome these two brothers - premature twins - into the world on Friday at Kivulini Maternity Centre here in Northern Tanzania. Here they are, wrapped up to retain their precious body heat. They are still with us to help ensure that they are growing...
Busy night: six safe births including three emergencies
Since yesterday evening, six babies were delivered safely at Kivulini Maternity Centre - including three births by emergency Caesarean Section (one baby was premature, another had sepsis and another was born as the placenta was passed simultaneously). Some of the...
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