Our programmatic team was hard at work last month conducting a facilities upgrade in Rukwa, Tanzania at Kirando Health Centre, the area’s main health care provider intended to serve roughly 250,000 persons. Kirando was in desperate need of infrastructural improvements, so our team installed a new and improved solar power system, constructed a well productive of clean, safe water and modernized the operating rooms.
During the upgrade, we worked closely with health care workers (HCWs) at this facility to take ownership of the new systems and equipment and also used this opportunity to retrain HCWs on LTFHC’s electronic medical record (EMR) system installed at Kirando and surrounding health centers earlier this year. We will be returning later this year to dig a new well and hook up the (repaired) plumbing pipes, which will complete this upgrade.
