At St. Walburg’s Hospital in rural southern Tanzania, thousands of patients are treated every month who would otherwise have no access to healthcare. The Artemed Stiftung supports the hospital in fulfilling this important task. Every month, we receive a detailed report from the hospital management about the activities and development of our cooperation. Here is the information for the month of May.

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Current status St. Walburg’s Hospital

At the end of May, Dr. Kasoga visited Germany to continue discussing the construction measures for the clinic. In addition, the search for a new hospital operational and technical director is currently underway. For May, we also received the following information about the clinic's employees: "A total of 282 staff (150 females, 132 males) with the following descriptions; 100 Staff on hospital payroll, 81 Staff government payroll, 33 Seconded by DED- Mtama, 6 Seconded by Ministry of Health and 62 Volunteers."

Deployments:

In May, midwife Leonie Zander is still on site and will continue to support the hospital until the end of June. Ms. Leyla Schosser also worked in the obstetrics department.

Community Healthcare and Outreach project:

In May, 245 women and young girls took part in training sessions on the topic of violence prevention and health. The effects, causes and possible prevention of cervical cancer were also discussed in this context. In addition to the women, 77 men also took part - which is a very important development. It is great to hear that 175 women were screened for cervical cancer.

In addition to the vaccination of the women, 779 children received standard vaccinations and were examined for malnutrition and anemia. Iron deficiency was diagnosed in 16 girls and 24 boys; malnutrition in 26