Health

Medical facilities become accessible

Health statistics in Tanzania show alarming figures: of a thousand newborns, 69 die within the first year (Germany: 4)* - and in Tunduru this number is even much higher. The average life expectancy is about 50 years (G: 79 years. With a total population of almost 42 million, the country has 1.4 million residents who are HIV-infected (G: 82 Mio residents, ca. 53,000 infected). Malaria, hepatitis, tuberculosis and bacterial diarrhoea are the most common diseases, which can only be insufficiently treated in the few medical facilties in the villages.

This is one of the problems. Another is the distance to the next GP: there are hardly any medically trained personnel in the region; the next hospital is 70 Kilometres away from KIUMA -impossible to reach without a car. And hardly anyone in this deserted region has (access to) a car.

wortundtat helps in many various ways: complicated diseases can be treated at the hospital, whilst the students of the nursing school assist in the medical wards in the villages.

 

* Source for all figure in this paragraph: CIA World Factbook / UNAIDS