Medical Equipment Partnership for International Children Health and AIDS Research Center in Tanzania.

Tanzania has achieved substantial gains in the field of health during the last three decades despite modestly declining poverty and inadequate health services. However, Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) and maternal mortality ratio (MMR) continue to be unacceptably high compared to many other developing countries, with persisting socioeconomic differentials. While access to family planning is increasing, access to three other pillars of safe motherhood namely antenatal care, clean and safe delivery, and essential obstetric care, remain largely unfulfilled. The objective of this medical equipment partnership application is to support the major maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) interventions through the provision of medical equipment kits, HIV Test equipment, laboratory equipment, surgical equipment, clinical analyzer products, ultrasound scanner products, EGG machine. Autoclave sterlizer, medical consumable, hospital furniture, laboratory chemicals, hospital ambulance vehicle, monitoring equipment products, X-ray computed tomography and laboratory glasswares and other equipment that you think can be helpful to our International Children Health and AIDS Research Center.

 International Children Health and AIDS Research Center that was been constructed by the Children Care Development Organisation (CCDO) in 2011 from its local sources of fund coming from CCDO internet centers, CCDO Kihesa ICT Center and School, and CCDO Tailoring Center is constructed to address issues of primary health care and health education for about 2.3 million Tanzanian (6% of the total) in rural area and with the major purpose to reduce infant mortality rate from 80 per 1000 live births to 50 per 1000 live births, to reduce maternal mortality rate from 4.50 to 2.80 per 1000 live births, to provide health and nutrition education to the community people for prevention of AIDS, STD, malaria, tuberculosis and HIV, to raise nutritional level of pregnant women through health programmes, to give support on sanitation and pure drinking water, to provide nutritious food to children and to develop the health status of the women and children and make them aware socially to live with dignity and honour.

 The major reason of the establishment of this International Children Health and AIDS Research Center is to provide; health care to rural communities through primary health care (PHCs), outpatient services, preventive services including vaccination, maternity and postpartum and well-baby care, common laboratory tests, health education, health training programmes, health care clinic services, HIV and AIDS prevention , counseling services, family planning education, to support childhood and breast cancer patients, health education and disease prevention, emergency care and stabilization of patients for transport to Iringa referral hospital, some inpatient services, and our target is to serve 17,000 inhabitants of Iringa District and the surrounding villages of Mkimbizi, Igeleke, Semtema, Mgongo, Nduli, Kilolo,Kigonzile, Igingilanyi, Mtwivila, Semtema and Isimani division in this year 2012/2013.

 This is because, the people of the rural area are the most under privileged downtrodden mass, for them quality health care is still a dream to come. Though there are big hospitals in Dar es Salaam city, Mwanza city and Kilimajaro region accessing the same by them is not an easy one. Coming to town a problem and more so in case of the sick and needy as the cost of transportation, stands in between. The only remedy would be take the hospital to a rural area and provide a state of art hospital, with all facility, including 200 beds and such other facility that would make it par with the best ones that are available to the urban masses. This hospital would act as a health hub for the villages and other Tanzanian regions that surround the project area.

 However, the International Children Health and AIDS Research hospital is lacking the medical equipments outlined in this Partnership application although everything is already within the hospital as such water facilities, electricity facilities, and houses for medical and Nurses doctors including accommodation for international medical volunteers.

 And in this hospital we already connected 45 computers and with Early Detection & Prevention System (EDP2000) soft ware system and this software will provide a probable diagnosis conditions based on the complainants narrated by the patient along with the results of a few relevant laboratory tests and the patients medical history. This software is designed to be extremely user friendly. Therefore, persons involved in primary health care in remote, rural and backward areas will be able to use it easily..

 I would like to inform you that Children Care Development Organization (CCDO) formerly Christ Care Development Foundation is a non-profit organisation registered from the Ministry of Development, Gender and Children with legal registration No. ooNGO/00003818 and mandated to operate in Tanzania Mainland particularly in providing healthcare to OVCs and PLWHAs, Education to Nursery and Primary English Medium School, reducing youth poverty through practical ICT solution and also the Children Care Development Organisation (CCDO) is involved in capacity building of rural poor women and youth group and extension of Revolving fund to them. We help the poor rural communities help themselves.

 I would like to inform you that the CCDO Hospital have no existing partner that’s why we are looking for a faithfully partner in this unique project to be done in Tanzania. In setting up our partnership in this project it was agreed that CCDO management including hospital staffs will be trained on how to consolidate our reciprocal exchange of skills, knowledge and experience in this partnership application, on how to maintain the given medical equipment, training on how to operate the supported equipments, ethical issues in HIV vaccine trials and ethical issues in women’s health care research including children and health care research, training on how to institutionalize ethical review of health care research and ethical issues in international collaborative health care research including ethics committee participation in this partnership, and the donor partner will execute this training.

 The project partner and the CCDO will arrange together to provide this training with budget support from CCDO sources of fund and its partnership. Since the CCDO management team has positive image to the Government and in this partnership we expect that the Government through its Ministry of Customs will provide exemption tax to those requested medical material aid and other equipments that will be procured for our hospital and school. Thus, CCDO will be the customs waivers in this partnership with better collaboration from you while CCDO will be named as the receiver all those procured medical and school equipments by the Project partner. For more information  about this partnership application just cantact us via this email: email:childrencareorg1@gmail.com for more information about this project  proposal for Medical aid partnership.