Financing deployment of a group of tropical doctors for 1 year - EUR 45,000 (28 May 2024)
Tweega Medica has sent 50 doctors to hospitals in eastern Africa for minimally 2 years. This ensures that they can make a sustainable contribution to the local healthcare. Educating the local medical and nursing staff is part of the duties. De Boomgaard Foundation is funding a group of doctors to fill the shortage in 3 hospitals.
The first hospital is Endulen, located in the Ngorongoro Conservancy in Tanzania. The area is inhabited by 90.000 Maasai people, who have a nomadic tradition. In recent years, the Tanzanian government has increasingly put pressure on them to leave. As a result, working conditions in the hospital are challenging and partly unpredictable. Tweega Medica intends to continue its mission, and upgrade critical mother and child care.
Also, continuity of necessary care in the 240-bed Mulanje Mission Hospital in southern Malawi is supported. The area has a high prevalence of HIV and teenage pregnancies. A special prevention programme set up by two former doctors needs a new assignment for the next five years, in order to transfer management properly to a Malawian Family Medicine specialist.
The Shirati Hospital in Rorya district in northern Tanzania, has 160 beds. The majority of the 400.000 inhabitants live below the poverty line. This hospital is stable and managed enthusiastically and competently but needs improvement to meet the great demand for care. The most urgent projects are creating a mother-child center and setting up an Emergency Department with oxygen supply for the entire hospital.