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.

Veronica’s Interview

Dec 12, 2018 | Kivulini, News, Story

Veronica came to Kivulini to have her twins as she had no other means of accessing maternity care. Her twins were born prematurely and one was too sick to survive. The other was given quality care in our partner neonatal project at ALMC for 3 weeks and then here for...

353!!

Dec 7, 2018 | News, Story

This weekend marks 6 months since we opened the doors of Kivulini Maternity Hospital. It has been an incredible journey for all the 70 staff. The opening followed a long process of construction, set up, recruitment and specialist training. Since then we have delivered...

Reaching Out

Dec 5, 2018 | Kivulini, Story

photo credit: H.Swanson As we enter the Christmas period here in Kivulini, we are grateful that we can join hands in celebrating the blessing of new birth. We are proud of all the work that our team has put into making this our first Christmas in our new centre. The...

Brad returns to Australia

Nov 21, 2018 | Story

Yesterday we were so sorry to see Brad leave us to return to his home in Australia.Brad has spent the last few months as a volunteer, training our national staff in running and maintaining our amazing health facility. We are delighted that Elibariki Mushi is now...

Jason Leaving

Nov 12, 2018 | Story

This weekend marks the departure of Dr Jason ,his wife Xiao and their little girl Xaiya. They have been with us for the last 10 months and in this time Jason has been part of the team developing and teaching our 2 months orientation programme ,updating policies and...

A visit from the Australian High Commission

Nov 12, 2018 | Story

On Friday, we had the honor of having the Australian High Commissioner Alison Chartres and her colleague Maggie Nunan visit Kivulini Maternity Centre. They were introduced to a number of our Australian volunteers and midwife lead, Karenna Shaw who led a tour of the...

MA and ROTARACT Arusha

Oct 31, 2018 | Story

Last Sunday a very enthusiastic team from the youth rotary group, Rotaract ( Arusha) came to meet with the 27 fistula patients in Kivulini who were here for the 3rd fistula camp of 2018. The plan was for Rotaract to meet with patients from across rural Tanzania to...

Unexpected Arrival

Oct 24, 2018 | Story

Maria arrived at the labour ward in a wheelchair, very distressed and in active labour, ready to push. The Midwives had no obstetric history on the mother. Mama was assisted onto the delivery bed and stated she needed to push. She quickly progressed to a...

Bibi’s life restored!

Oct 17, 2018 | Kivulini, News, Staff, Story

The beautiful smile on this BiBi’s face tells the story of hope and restoration. BiBi had suffered the debilitating and painful condition of a prolapsed uterus, for many years. Now she is healed after a successful surgery. Sharing this special day with Bibi is our...

Ben McDonald

Oct 10, 2018 | Story

We are celebrating Ben McDonald's life here in Kivulini Maternity Hospital, Arusha. Ben represents living life to the full for us who were privileged to be part of his journey, from the beginning until he crossed the finishing line and we are determined that his...

Fistula Conquered

Sep 26, 2018 | Story

Neema is 23 years old expecting her 3rd baby. Neema experienced obstructed labour during the difficult birth of her first baby. The baby girl was born alive but the long delivery left Neema with an obstetric fistula. Soon after Neema was pregnant again with her...

Meet Christina

Aug 31, 2018 | Story

Christina joined Maternity Africa April 2018 as part of the team of three cooks responsible for the catering needs of all the patients and the staff at the centre. Christina is originally from a rural area within Manyara and has been in the catering...

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