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Partnership:
Tanzania
The new clinic is
here !!!
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Updated February 17, 2008
Mission
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Our work in Tanzania is a Medical Relief
Foundation / Fame (Foundation for African Medicine and
Education) Partnership. MRF board member Dr Frank Artress
and his wife Susan moved to Tanzania with the purpose of
establishing a small hospital in the community.
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Population approx 800,000 people
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Total lack of resources and equipment
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Malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS wreak havoc in this area.
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One quarter of the present generation of educated
adults are HIV positive
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The UN predicts more than 2 million orphans in
Tanzania by 2005
Assisted in completing:
Mobile Medical Clinic
purchased. Serves the surrounding rural villages and
orphanages.
Purchase of 12 acres of land in Karatu
where a fully equipped hospital and teaching
campus will be built.
The future:
To enhance the
quality of medical care, such that individuals from all
socioeconomic groups will have access to comprehensive and
equitable medical care.
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Build
a medical facility in Karatu
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Provide
a progressive approach to the treatment and prevention of
diseases.
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Provide
continuing education for Tanzanian physicians.
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Provide
rotating coverage of specialty care physicians from around
the world.
Karatu Medical
Facility – A project to build and equip a hospital and
teaching facility in Karatu, Tanzania. After many long months
of searching, FAME has located what we feel is the perfect site
for this project. It is a 12-acre piece of land accessible by
foot and vehicle, even in the rainy season. The clinic site
itself is in a peaceful and quiet setting, an environment
conducive to healing and surrounded by unsurpassed natural
beauty. In a country where an estimated one out of every six
children will die before the age of 5 and one-third of the
population is expected to die before the age of 40, MRF will be
contributing to a vital and worthwhile endeavor.
Plans for Hospital
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Outreach and Mobile Clinic Project -
MRF will be working collaboratively with FAME and child-centered
organizations focused on the needs of orphaned and abandoned
children in the Karatu area. The goal to help provide medical
care to this growing population of children and to also
facilitate a system of care focused on “orphan prevention.”
Building a well - With the financial
assistance from the Rotary Club, MRF and FAME are working
together to drill the first fresh water well in Karatu. This
well will provide water for the hospital as well as for the
local citizens and is expected to reduce the levels of
waterborne disease including intestinal worms and giardia. |