Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam
The Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam (AKH-Dar) is part
of the Aga Khan Health Services (AKHS). Established in 1964, the
Hospital is an 80-bed long-term care facility staffed by 25 full-time
consultants and 103 nurses offering quality health care to Tanzanians.
The Hospital provides general medical services, specialist clinics
and state of the art diagnostic services.
The Hospital has grown in recent years, expanding its services
and upgrading its facilities. The expansion programme has emphasised
the introduction of new diagnostic services, which will improve
the function of the hospital as a referral centre. High-quality,
high-technology laboratory medicine and radiology services have
enhanced the capability of AKH-Dar to provide referral services
in Tanzania. The Hospital is also part of the AKHS international
referral system, with links to the Aga Khan Hospital, Nairobi
and the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi.
| Hospital facilities include: |
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Medical and surgical ward of 28 beds
with two VIP rooms and two isolation rooms to avoid risks
of infectious diseases; |
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Paediatric ward of 28 beds with two
VIP rooms, two isolation rooms and a children’s play
room with specially trained paediatric nurses; |
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Maternity ward of 14 beds with one
VIP room, three delivery rooms, a neo-natal special care
unit with three incubators, a neo-natal ventilator and
a nursery for newly born babies, staffed by specially trained
nurses and midwives; |
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Intensive care unit of 4 beds. |
Each ward is led by a full-time consultants, supported by resident
medical officers (junior doctors) and qualified nurses. Patient
rooms are of very high quality. All the rooms in the Medical-Surgical
and Paediatric wards include: air conditioning, nurse call system,
cardiac arrest alarm system, piped oxygen, refrigerator, television
and telephone.
AKHS also operate seven Primary Medical Centres in Iringa, Mwanza,
Dodoma, Mbeya, Morogoro, Sea Cliff and Manjelwa. These Centres
provide inpatient, outpatient, day surgery, emergency, diagnostic
and pharmacy services.
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Aga Khan Health Services
The Hospital and primary medical centres are part of the Aga
Khan health Services (AKHS), which is one of the most comprehensive
private not-for-profit health care systems in the developing
world. It includes 325 health centres, dispensaries, hospitals,
diagnostic centres and community health outlets. Building on
the Ismaili Community's health care efforts in the first half
of the 20th century, AKHS now provides primary health care and
curative medical care in India, Pakistan, Kenya, Tanzania, and
Syria. It includes five general hospitals, seven maternity homes/hospitals
and 187 health centres/dispensaries.
AKHS has facilities in Kenya and Tanzania that provide care to
over 600,000 patients annually in both rural and urban, and preventive
and curative contexts. Its hospitals provide an increasingly comprehensive
range of high-quality clinical services.
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Healthcare Activities of the Aga Khan Development Network
AKHS activities are conducted in concert with other health-related
activities of the Aga Khan Development Network. The overall aim
is to raise the health status of people in East Africa and elsewhere
in the developing world. Emphasis, in current projects, is on
strengthening health systems development.
The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), with branches in Kenya, Tanzania,
and Uganda, works with a variety of grantees, including AKHS,
to improve the health of vulnerable population groups, especially
mothers and children, and promote health services development
on the national and regional levels.
AKF and AKHS have been joined in their work in health care in
East Africa by the Aga Khan University's Faculty of Health Sciences,
which offers accredited professional training, especially for
nurses, and conducts a variety of research programmes focused
on the health problems of developing nations.
The AKDN aims to assist countries in the building of effective,
sustainable health systems linking different kinds of services
and levels of care. For more information, please visit the AKDN
website: http://www.akdn.org.
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