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.

Christy Rowe Miller

Nov 11, 2016 | Staff

Christy is a Certified Nurse Midwife from the USA. Christy says “working side-by-side with Tanzanian midwives is a great joy and feels like the culmination of a lifetime of Africa and Midwifery experience. I believe that well-trained midwives are the key to success...

Let there be light

Nov 6, 2016 | Kivulini

Electricity arrives at Kivulini.

Neema

Nov 6, 2016 | Story

Neema came to us 2 years ago in a dreadful state. She had recently been in labour for 4 days and went for a caesarean at a rural hospital where she delivered a dead baby boy. When she arrived she was weak, couldn't walk unaided and was leaking urine and faeces from...

Community Engagement

Nov 3, 2016 | Kivulini

The Kivulini Maternity Centre needs to engage with the Tanzanian community on many levels including both an awareness of its services by prospective mothers but also as a facility that the business community would wish to support. A small step in this process was our...

The Mom Pod

Oct 20, 2016 | Story

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Paved with Good Intentions

Oct 17, 2016 | Kivulini

In preparation for the ground breaking ceremonies for the Kivulini Maternity Centre, Mr Gao (our contractor's site manager) has made this stony road into the heart of the building site. It will be along this road that our patients will eventually arrive for...

Hawa

Oct 16, 2016 | Story

Hawa is a 21 year old Afar woman. We met her in her third pregnancy. She had had 2 stillborn infants in her first 2 pregnancies and did not know why. She arrived at the BMF hospital in Mille, when she was about 30 weeks pregnant. She was seen in clinic and was found...