Previous Projects

In the theatre two new sterilisers were installed (2004)

1995
Christine and Wilfried Schennach visit Ifakara for the first time
Delivery of suture material and operation instruments
Assistance in theatre and wards
Improvement of the hygienic situation

1996
Co-financing of a house for hospital employees
Improvement of the Prosthesis Workshop
Equipment for Premature Babies’ Ward

1999
1999 Weaving of linens

2000 - 2002
Training of doctors and nurses from Ifakara at St. Vinzenz Hospital in Zams

2001
Installation of an Observation Ward
Delivery of operation lamps

2002
2002 34 patient beds with mattresses and coatings
operation clothes, teaching material for nursing school

2003
33 patient beds with mattresses and coatings
1 groundwater pump
2 big laundry machines
1 photocopier
Weaving of linens
Operating tables, suction machines

2004
1 colonoscope, 1 gastroscope
37 patient beds with mattresses and coatings
Blood pressure meters
2 big sterilizers for the theatre from Belimed Comp. with a water treatment plant

2005
Training of 3 doctors to be specialists for Surgery, Internal Medicine and Paediatrics (until 2007)
Training of an occupational therapist (until 2008)
1 year check of the two sterilizers by Belimed Comp.
Renovation of paediatric wards
Blood sugar meters with test stripes
Hospital clothing and bales of cloth
3 sewing machines

2006
Operation linen and -clothes
Blood sugar meters with test stripes
1 emergency generator (380 KVA)
Pump for the water treatment plant
Tools for the workshop
1 big laundry machine

2007
Training of 1 doctor to become a specialist in Orthopaedics and Traumatology (till 2009)
15 patient beds, 100 mattresses and coatings
Weaving of 100 linens
2 Electrocardiographs
2 Cardiotocographs
6 Oxygen Concentrators
2 mobile X-ray machines (C-arms)
9 computers with accessories
Blood pressure meters

The new haematology device

1 Sysmex Haematology device for the laboratory
1 Photocopier
100 mosquito nets
X-ray machine for Dental Unit
1 palette of operating- and examination gloves
Insulin and analgesics

2008
Training of 1 doctor to be a Assistant Medical Officer (duration of training: 1 year)
1 Automatic processor
10 X-ray cassettes
Installation of an X-ray image intensifier (C-arm)

Fundi Kassim installs the C-arm


Maintenance of the emergency generator
1 Biochemistry device for the laboratory (Vitros)
Biochemistry reagents
1 Precision scales for the laboratory
Air condition for biochemistry laboratory
1 Refrigerator and freezer for storing the reagents
2 stopwatches for the laboratory
1 Hematokrit centrifuge for paediatric department
Antibiotics and painkillers (donation of Marien-pharmacy Schwaz)
2 Labelling devices (Brother)
Renovation of the rooms of the X-ray department
and of a staff house
2 diathermy units
2 dermatomes with accessory
1 mesh device with accessory
1 bone drilling machine with charger and storage batteries
Tools for the workshop
500 oxygen masks with tubes
1 ophthalmoscope
54 impregnated mosquito nets

2009
Overhaul of both big sterilizers in the theatre
Reparation work in the X-ray department
Training of two employees of the hospital to be a cook and a lorry driver respectively
Installation of an Occupational Therapy by Isabelle Hofstetter
Assistance by the reopening of the prosthesis workshop
Several adjustments (lorry, X-ray C-arm etc.)
Overhaul of the emergency generator
Air condition in the pharmacy and X-ray department
Renovation of the X-ray room and installation of radiation protection measures
Purchase and installation of a new X-ray machine Siemens "Mulitix-Swing"

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2010
1 modern Cystoskop
Solarplant to heat the water in the laundry and to cool the mortuary
1 bohrhole for a new deep well (100m)
Water - bewser for waste water
3 computers, 2 printer, 1 scanner
New tools for the workshop
670 sheets, coating for blankets, clothes for nurses
3 sewing machines
Drugs and dressings