Medical volunteering at Hai Hospital-Kilimanjaro Tanzania

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The experience

Hai district hospital found in Kilimanjaro where is the home of the highest mount in Africa. Hai district hospital found in Kilimanjaro where is the home of the highest mount in Africa. Its a unique opportunities in Tanzania internship opportunities to Pre-med, nursing, Mental health and medical students interested in a outreach for medical placement. Its offer opportunity to work at Theatre, Physiotherapy, Reproductive, Labour ward, OPD .

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What you offer

30 hours of help per week

Social Work: Help with volunteer work in local projects and communities.

Additional fee required

Amount: US$ 20 Per day

Fee pays for: Benefits for travelers and Donation to project

Description: The contribution which Volunteers pay $20 per day will be going to cover costs of Foods, Accommodation, Hospital supervision, Bike transport to hospital.

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What you get

2 days off per week

Shared Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other travelers.

Team Dorm: You will have a bed in a shared room, which means you will share the same room with other people.

Tent: You will sleep in a tent at a camping site.

Breakfast: You are entitled to a free breakfast, every day of your stay.

Lunch: You are entitled to a free lunch, every day of your stay.

Dinner: You are entitled to a free dinner, every day of your stay.

Discounts on Tours: Get discounts for tours and excursions around town.

Discounts on Accommodation: Get discounts for your stay in other hostels.

Free Hiking Tours: We’ll take you on excursions and hikes around town. For free!

Bikes at your disposal: You can use our bikes any time you want.

Language lessons: Take free language classes at our place.

Use our equipped kitchen: Feel free to use our kitchen and make your own delicious food.

Basic Internet Access: Basic speed internet for you to work remotely

Dedicated Workspace: Specific space for you to work remotely

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Requirements

Between 18 and 80 years old

Welcomes solo volunteers, couples, and partners of volunteers

Be from outside Tanzania

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What's not included

Flights, Travel Insurance, Internal Transportation and Visa

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Program Details

The hospital has several department includes Outpatient department(OPD), Theatre, Physiotherapy, Reproductive, Labour ward( Obstetric), Paediatric ward, General ward, ICU UNITY, Laboratory, Dental, Eye department, Radiology, Mental health unity, Orthopaedic, Pharmathetical department and CTC.

Doctors, nurses, surgeons, midwives, and other medical professionals to work alongside local practitioners Kilimanjaro area in Tanzania.

Our medical volunteering programs responsibility range from assisting local health care workers with regular health care to working with to help establish more sustainable standards of physical, mental health and nutrition awareness

Volunteers/Interns are not allowed to perform the major identification or surgery works. Most of the time volunteers help doctors or work as an assistant to doctors.  You will be involved in aspects of the day-to-day running of the hospitals, observing or directly assisting, where possible. You can help out in simple but practical ways, vastly increasing your own knowledge and understanding of medical practice.

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Activities & Shift

Taking bed to bed round in the wards with local nurses and doctors as a daily routine to identify the progress of patients who admitted in the ward. This ward round includes prescribing new treatments, ordering investigations, providing health education.

* Attending morning report which scheduled during Monday to Friday with other health care provider for night updates. This session all medical team gets time to listen night report about the progress of patients who are in the ward, those who got referral in-out of the hospital, to know the total numbers of patients.

* Getting actively involved in the daily work of the hospital including treat patients, escorting them from one department to another and planned outreach to peri feral areas.

* Treating minor injuries and dressing which maybe being assisting a nurse or doctors to do a procedure depend the level of skills. In Reproductive department volunteer will help to provide vaccinations to adults and children.

* Assist to lift patients and clients from other department to another for-example from Outpatient department(OPD) to inpatient department(IPD), going for investigation to radiology and laboratory.

* Depend with your professionals, skills and knowledge you can get involved in medical discussion to treat patients and other clients .

* Doing routine patient vital signs checkups like measure Blood pressure, pulse rate, respiration, checking Body Mass Index(BMI) , check temperature and oxygen saturation.

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Rules

Volunteers are suppose to wear clinical uniform when they are at clinical area.
Wearing proper clothes are essential in a community.
Respect the community will respect you.