Tanzania Health Opportunities' Placement 

Our healthcare volunteer program In Tanzania is a vital for addressing critical healthcare needs in low resource settings. We tackle challenges of limited access to medical care, inadequate resources, healthcare personnel and high burden of tropical diseases.

Through our program volunteers play crucial role in supplementing local healthcare efforts, providing much needed support and gaining invaluable experience while helping. Medical care is a basic human right, and making it accessible for all is essential.

Volunteers will primarily work in our collaborated hospital and clinic to fulfill the needs for more hands towards providing health services.

Working on our health projects offers a wonderful opportunity for volunteers to become familiar with the challenges and health issues of developing countries and low resource facilities. All our hospitals and clinics are government approved. 

The work environment is way different from the one you are used to work at home. You need to be open minded and able to deal with the poor health care options that are given. The hospital is located in the city of  Dar es salaam, 20 minutes from volunteer house. 

This project is open to everyone with healthcare interests or background and who wants to help make a difference in the lives of underprivileged people in Africa in the field of medical.

Available departments:

We have a number of departments who would appreciate your help. you can choose to combine different departments at the same time. You will be working with supervisor who will give you full orientation to familiarize with given department and roles to help.

• General medicine department (Internal Medicine)
  
• Nursing department 
  
• Emergency and accident department
  
• General surgery department (ENT, Orthopedics)
  
• Maternity and Midwifery Department (Labor & Delivery)
  
• Out patient department (OPD)
  
• ICU Department 
  
• Obstetrics and Gynecology
  
• Pharmacy Department 
  
• Pediatric Department
• Laboratory Department
• Physiotherapy Department
• Mental Health Department 

Volunteer work:

This is an excellent opportunity to gain valuable experience in your field in a different culture where practices may differ considerably to what you're used to at home. We have a variety of Medical placements available in Tanzania. You can work in a variety of difference medical departments, where you can either assist or shadow the staff members. The type of work you will be allocated will depend to an extent on your own abilities and capabilities, which is understandable given that you will be dealing with patient health and safety.

You will be involved in the day-to-day running of hospitals directly assisting the doctors and nurses. If you are planning to specialize in a particular field of medicine in your studies, we can arrange to place you in a relevant department to ensure that we benefit from your knowledge in your field of study and you also learning from our local professionals. This project is open to anyone who wants to help improve the lives of the Tanzanian people.

Your roles may  include some of the following: 

• Going forward rounds with doctors to examine cases and determine the next line of action, 
  
• following up cases and ensuring that proper medicine is dispensed 
  
• helping to take patients vitals , examinations and subsequent diagnosis, helping with general consultation activities with local supervisor .
  
• Observing procedures, 
  
• Helping ward activities 
  
• taking care of patients arriving for out-patient care or on admission 
  
• Changing bandages and monitoring recovery, 
  
• checking blood pressure, weighing babies helping with first aid treatment.
  
• stitching at emergency and accidental department

What to expect:

Our organization also run healthcare outreach programs. Where we visit local communities to provide free health services to the underserved communities. We provide health education, basic prevention of non communicable disease like Diabetes hypertension and malaria. This offer a wonderful opportunity for volunteers and students to be acquainted with the existing community health issues and challenges of delivering health care in developing country like Tanzania. Volunteer has to come with his or her scrub and tools to use in hospital like stethoscope for doctors.  

You will definitely gain valuable insight into Tanzania culture and will have the opportunity to improve your skills in a variety of areas in health care. You will work in the hospital five days a week from 8: am to 2:00pm. You have the rest of the day to yourself; you can explore the city with the other volunteers. The volunteer house you will be staying is very close to the beach, art craft center and the market so there is always a lot to do.