Women's Services
The Hospital’s comprehensive maternity unit features a ward
of 14 beds with one personalised care room, three delivery rooms,
a neo-natal special care unit with three incubators and one neo-natal
ventilator, a nursery for newly born babies, staffed by specially
trained nurses and midwives.
The Clinic offers expecting mothers high quality care through each
stage of their pregnancy: ante-natal, delivery and post-natal.
Paediatricians manage a full neo-natal intensive care unit catering
to both mother and child’s needs. The gynaecology service
operates inpatient and outpatient facilities, a “well woman” service
and has Tanzania’s only epidural pain relief service.
Breast and Cervical Screening Programmes
The Hospital applies the
latest international screening and early detection techniques
for cancer patients including: |
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Pap smear tests (performed annually
for first three years). If results are normal, women patients
are screened every two to three years; |
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Annual mammograms for women aged 45
and above; |
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Breast lump screening for early detection
and treatment. |
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