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.
Putting Them Straight
Zawadi directs the crane driver to align the containers which will provide us with dry storage but will also be the home of our main maintenance workshop and the location of our solar battery bank. The solar installation will be built above the containers and will we...
Our Baby Gets a Name
The external paint work is nearly complete and so we can at last give Kivulini her official name.
Shaking the Tree
Zawadi Bendera is our young engineer who is responsible for the installation and care of our biomedical equipment as well as for vital parts of our infrastructure including the equipment that provides our water and electricity supply. In addition to her direct role,...
Shirima
Outreach is tough. Lucas travels for miles around the country searching for women hidden away, ashamed because they smell so bad, suffering from the debilitating condition, obstetric fistula. In one village Lucas had been giving education regarding fistula, then asked...
The Hostel Gets a Roof
In addition to directly serving Tanzanian mothers, Kivulini will provide advanced midwifery training courses. The hostel will accommodate 8 trainees during their 6 week course.
Maternity Africa is not currently recruiting volunteers, so please do not send messages asking to volunteer. Thank you.
Monica Ndege
Monica Ndege is a Tanzanian registered Nurse and Midwife with more than 27 years of working experience. Monica is a holder of a BA in Theology and Masters in Psychology. Monica has worked with Medical Missionary of Mary Sisters, Diocese of Bomfin and Arch Diocese of...
Walls
After what feels like an eternity of foundation work, this week the team have started on laying the blocks that will form the walls to Kivulini Maternity Centre.
Serena
Serena was a young woman who arrived at the hospital with a suspected fistula as she was leaking faeces. She said she had had ‘an operation’ in another hospital, but all signs pointed towards a 'back street' abortion. Abortion is illegal in Tanzania but studies...
Zawadi a Bendera
It will be my job at Kivulini Maternity centre to ensure the safe and reliable operation of all electronic and electro-mechanical equipment. Everything from laboratory analysers and oxygen concentrators to our 65KVA diesel generator. In 2016 I qualified as a...
Maternity Africa Fistula Repair Statistics
While we are based in Tanzania Dr Browning travels throughout Africa to undertake Fistula repair surgery. This picture summarizes the location of patients treated by him since the inception of Maternity Africa.
UK Fundraising Partnership
We are very happy to announce a UK fundraising partnership with Impact UK. Impact UK have been a generous donor to Maternity Africa for some years and now with their help it is possible for UK donors to contribute directly to our activities while gaining the benefit...
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