Houses

 Mrs Renata Preparing specimen for checking malaria

 Resident house for Nurses and Doctors Hanga Health centre

Visitors

Bro.Lucius Matembo OSB with the five tourist from Austria visiting the Hanga health centre

A group of students of medical doctors from Italy by the name Students Without Frontiers have shown interest to work with and help health services in Tanzania. The group has signed contract service with Hanga Health Center. At Hanga the contract was made in this November by a mutual signing of it by Abbot Thadei Mhagama, OSB, the abbot of Hanga Abbey and Dr. Patricia D. Matteo from Italy, a representative of the Italian Students Without Frontiers.

Dr. Patricia was accompanied by two students of medical doctorate: Gaia Russo and Sara Riggi.
We thank them for their willingness to help the needy in Tanzania.

Mother with her newborn baby.

 

 

Dr. Ed Tuhy who donated the eye equipment from the U.S.A.

Donations

Brother Josephat explaining the new antimalaria drug to Brother Lucius

Our nurse Moses explaining the drug to the patients

how to use it.

 

Hanga Health Centre got new eye equipment from donates.

Surgery room

Due to Maternal death St Bernard health centre start to build the surgery room soon. We will start operation in order to reduce the number of maternal death.

Department

  

Medical Ward

 Dental and Eye Department.

 






Moses, our nurse, providing the medicine to the patients.

Hanga Health Center Mobile Clinic

 

Pupils from St. Laurent Primary, who visited the Hanga Health Centre for academic purpose.

 New mothers of Hanga Village who received mosquito nets.

 

Mobile Clinic under five years at Ruvuma in Hanga Village.

Introduction

ST BERNARD HANGA HEALTH CENTRE

 St Bernard Hanga Health Centre non profit is situated in the Ruvuma region Southern of Tanzania. It is based in the village of Hanga.  It is a quiet area and belongs to (originally African) Benedictine Monks.
The health centre covers a population of about 18,000 inhabitants and has 35 beds. 8 dispensaries refer their patients to this centre.
Other health centre, whether close by or not, send their patients here because of the supply of therapies, examination possibilities, and good quality care and treatments.
The composition of the local staff is as follows: 1 doctor work here, and 8 Nurses.St Bernard Health Centre started as a dispensary in 1987- a building with one room. It was between 2000 and 2012 that wards were added to upgrade it to a health centre. The health centre is geared towards the curative aspect of acute medical and surgical conditions against the background of holistic care. 

The most common disease in this area of Tanzania is malaria and its associated conditions such as anaemia. The health centre also provides an outreach programme at 6 sites which are visited once a month. As the government also requires medicines to be provided free of charge vaccine to under 5's children and ante-natal patients. Patients come long distances to be treated here because of its high reputation. There is a new HIV clinic (52 patients registered) with continuing care.   On a visit many village in August 2012, we discovered that many of their patients need to walk more than 40km over very difficult roads to get to the health centre. The centre now has 35 beds and carries out minor surgery and we are building the surgery room to help the patients who need the major service. Health centre operates the following department, Outpatient Department, Labour ward, Laboratory department, Medical ward, Reproductive and child Health clinic, voluntary cancelling and Testing of HIV, Dental Department, and Eye clinic department. Due to the recent crop failures in Tanzania there are large numbers of cases of malnutrition in the Hanga and are in need of food supplements. Hanga is a HIV accredited Centre and although they receive ARVs from the government.