Tanzania Episcopal Conference (TEC)
Chairman: Rt. Rev. Severine NiweMugizi
Secretary
General: Rev. Fr. Pius Rutechura
Address: Catholic Secretariat
Tanzania Episcopal
Conference
P.O. Box 2133,
Kurasini, Dar es Salaam
Tel: 255 22 2851075/9
Fax: 255 22 2851133/2850295
E-mail: tec@cats-net.com
Website: http.members. tripod.com
Health
Department (HD)
Chairman: Rt. Rev. A.
Balina
Executive
Secretary Dr.
A. Hokororo
Hospitals 1
Dispensaries 2
Centre
for Mentally
Retarded
Children 1
|
Health
Services |
Region |
District |
Town/Village |
Hospitals
Bugando
Medical Centre Centre
for Mentally Retarded
Children Dispensaries
1.
St. Augustine University 2.
TEC Oldeani Farm |
Mwanza Morogoro Mwanza Arusha |
Mwanza Kilombero Mwanza Karatu |
Mwanza Ifakara Nyegezi Oldeani |
Address: Bugando Medical Centre,
P.O. Box 1370, Mwanza
District
and Region: Mwanza
District, Mwanza Region
Tel: 028 (068) 1
60410
Fax: 028 1 42392
e-mail: <bugando@africaonline.co.tz>
A
Zonal Consultant and teaching hospital which is owned by the Tanzania Episcopal
Conference. It was build between 1968 and 1971 by Misereor. It was operated by
the government of Tanzania until 1985 when it was handed back to the Trustees
of TEC. It is now run by 10 Board of Governors, six including the Chairperson
are appointed by TEC and four are appointed by the Government of Tanzania.
The
hospital has a capacity of 850 beds and provides outpatient and inpatient
services in medicine, surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and Gynaecology,
psychiatry, radio diagnosis and laboratory services.
The
hospital runs training programmes in internship for Medical Officers, Assistant
Medical Officer, Clinical Officers, Nursing, Pharmacy and Laboratory
Technology.
The
hospital runs a course in Clinical Pastoral Education.
The
hospital will start undergraduate courses in Medicine leading to graduate
qualification in October 2002; it will be a constituent college of St.
Augustine University and will then be known as Bugando University College of
Health Sciences.
Centre
For Mentally Retarded Children – Ifakara (Bethlehem Centre)
P.O.
Box 641, Ifakara
The
Centre was proposed by the Tanzania Episcopal Conference Plenary Assembly in
1979 to mark the
International Year of the Child.
Bethlehem Centre trains
children who have mental retardation between the ages of 7
and 12 years so that they
can manage daily living activities in
their communities. It also
prepares these children to
enter into ordinary primary school education.
Currently the cetnre trains
81 pupils of whom 50 are boys and 31 are girls. The centre
trains the children in
various trades such as tailoring, carpentry, art, agriculture and
animal husbandry. The center
also runs a kindergarten for 33 children.
The development of the
center to its present state was done by Brothers of the Order of
St. Frnacis of Assisi,
Capuchin. Sisters of Charity of St. Francis of Assisi Mahenge
Diocese are responsible for
the general running of the center while the Bishop of the
Diocese of Mahenge is the
Patron.