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.

Hope Restored

Sep 25, 2015 | Story

Serena was a young Masai girl who came to us at Selian just before New Year this year. She was feverish and barely lucid, had to be assisted to walk. The other patients in the ward recoiled from her, moving their beds away, as aside from the familiar fistula smell of...

Lucas Toroya

Jun 19, 2015 | Staff

Lucas The Searcher of Forgotten Women - is our Masai Fistula Outreach Coordinator. He is a Social Worker by training and has worked for a number of NGO's and Tanzanian hospitals in the arena of Women's Health. He has a myriad of skills, so much more than can ever be...

“I couldn’t let my heart believe he would survive”

Mar 5, 2015 | Story

Zahara came to our antenatal clinic when she was 7 ½ month pregnant, complaining of abdominal pain. It was immediately clear to us that, unfortunately, she was in labour. We prepared her for delivery, explaining that it was too early for the baby to be born. Within 2...

Alphonsia’s heart wrenching story

Oct 24, 2014 | Story

Alphonsia’s heart wrenching story began 27 years ago after her labour failed to progress due to a breech presentation. When she eventually got to the hospital they discovered the fetus had two heads and had died. It was delivered by destructive means whereby the skull...

‘It is not a problem, it is just a challenge!’

Oct 17, 2014 | Story

Daphne is a Dutch midwife who began her career in a typical Dutch practice which included many home deliveries. In 2010 she travelled to Ethiopia to work in Mota. That was where she lost her heart for Ethiopia and especially for the work in low-resource...

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