Specialty diagnostic centre to be launched in Dar this year

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NSSF Chief, Public Relations and Customer Service Eunice Chiume

 A Specialty Diagnostic Centre will be opened in Dar es Salaam later this year (November) by the India based Apollo Hospitals
Group.

 

The announcement was mid this week in Dar es Salaam by Apollo Hospitals Group Manager, Director of Business Development Dr Vineet Arora at Sabasaba while speaking to reporters at the ongoing 39th Dar es Salaam International Trade Fair (DITF).

 

“The opening of the diagnostics centre is the result of concerted efforts between the Apollo Hospitals Group, the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) and the government of Tanzania,” he said.

 

According to Arora, the hospital will provide modern medical equipment such as CT scan, MRI, dialysis and house a diabetic clinic.

 

“We will bring our doctors who will   work together with local doctors to ensure that Tanzanians minimize the cost of travelling to India,” he added.

‘We will also use telemedicine for diagnosis and it is our philosophy to train others,” he went on to say.

 

Dr Arora remained optimistic that in a few years to come, the country will have sustainable health care, and that with the set up of the centre, resources of the Apollo hospitals will be available in Tanzania at affordable prices.

 

Dr Arora cited that Apollo hospitals has already started engaging with Tanzania doctors, nurses and other health staff offering trainings held in India.

 

“Apart from equipment and infrastructure, the centre also needs skilled doctors, “he said.

 

“We have already agreed with the government of Tanzania that every two to three months doctors from India will come to Tanzania to train local doctors,” he added.

 

“These are few engagements but we plan to introduce many more, so in a few years to come, the country will have sustainable health care ,” he said.

 

NSSF Chief, Public Relations and Customer Service Eunice Chiume confirmed the agreement between the two sides, “it’s another opportunity for Tanzanians to reduce the burden of sending patients to India for treatment,” she said.

 

She explained that the centre will  be located at the former NSSF headquarters along Bibi Titi road in Dar es Salaam.

 

“It will  be a super clinic where patients will get diagnostic results, the government will also reduce the cost of sending patients abroad,” she said.

She also pointed out that after opening of the Diagnostic Centre, the Apollo Hospitals Group in collaboration with NSSF will lay a foundation stone for construction of new super specialist hospital at Kigamboni, in Temeke District.  

 

The 39th DITF started on 28 June last month and expected to be concluded on July 8, this year whereby the President Jakaya Kikwete is expected to officially open the exhibitions today June 3.