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Tanzania’s 60 million people experience challenges in accessing adequate health resources, such as hospitals, medical training centers, and diagnostic radiology services.
With less than 200 registered radiologists nationwide — or roughly one radiologist per 500,000 Tanzanians — the health system has much work ahead before the country meets the world’s benchmark rate: one radiologist serving 50,000 people.
RAD-AID in Tanzania
RAD-AID in Tanzania has grown to five program sites — Arusha, Moshi, Mwanza, Dar es Salaam, and Zanzibar — which span from education, to service delivery, to technical assistance in diagnostic radiology and nuclear medicine. RAD-AID supports the development of advanced cross-sectional imaging by training radiologists, sonographers, nuclear medicine professionals, and radiologic technologists.
Radiology residents from KCMC at their new workstations
Moshi
RAD-AID’s program of support in Tanzania includes Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre (KCMC) in Moshi, a teaching hospital with 600 beds located in the foothills of the eponymous mountain.
KCMC’s radiology department has a state-of-the-art CT scanner, a 1.5T MRI unit, as well as 3 new DR x-ray suites. It also has a radiology residency program and ultrasound certificate program, both supported by RAD-AID.
Dar es Salaam
RAD-AID has established partnerships in Dar es Salaam with three major hospitals that include diagnostic imaging, nuclear medicine imaging, and radiation oncology.
Zanzibar
RAD-AID Volunteer in Zanzibar
RAD-AID established a partnership with Mnazi Mmoja Referral Hospital in Stonetown, Zanzibar in support of radiology capacity building on the archipelago. Additionally, RAD-AID established a partnership with Ampola Tasakhtaa Hospital also located in Stonetown, Zanzibar in support of breast imaging, where the island’s only mammography unit is located, servicing a population of over 1 million.
Arusha
In 2015, RAD-AID partnered with NSK Hospitals Limited (NSKHL) in Arusha to help build a diagnostic radiology center. RAD-AID volunteer radiologists, technologists, sonographers, and nurses have periodically provided technical assistance to NSKHL staff.
RAD-AID volunteer working in CT with KCMC staff.
Mwanza
RAD-AID first started working at Mwanza’s Bugando Medical Centre (BMC) in 2017, to lend support to the budding radiation oncology department. Since then, BMC’s department of radiology has reached out to RAD-AID to provide radiology residency support stemming from the success of the partnership with KCMC in Moshi.
Partnerships
In 2022, Siemens Healthineers issued a press release highlighting the partnership with RAD-AID to support African countries, specifically Kenya, Ghana, and Tanzania.
