Bethsaida Centre for Health and Development is a nonprofit health center in Tanzania that offers both services at the center as well as home-based care. The center aims to provide equitable, accessible, and effective health services to improve health and livelihood. Services offered at the center include outpatient and inpatient care, diagnostics, medical and surgical care, counseling, and reproductive and child health services. The home-based care program offers counseling, palliative care including pain management, treatment adherence support, and health education to patients in their homes. The center operates 24/7 and charges user fees for services.
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1. QUALITY HEALTH SERVICES FOR ALLBETHSAIDA CENTRE FOR HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENTA health centre with a home based care facility in Tanzania
2. ABOUT BETHSAIDABethsaida Centre for health & development (Bethsaida CHD) is a non profit Tanzanian registered organisation that operates an accredited Health Centre with a Home Based Care Facility.This Health Centre offers both health services at the centre as well as at Clients homes during visits in accordance with health and social welfare practitioners expertises.
3. MISSION AND STRATEGYGeneral GoalWe strive to offer services based on the Tanzanian Development Vision to 2025, her present Health Policy (2003) and in line with the Developmental Millennium Goals for 2015. Bethsaida CHD therefore envisages offering, equitable, accessible, effective health services to people in our service area with efficiency to improve health and livelihood.Motivation and MeansAcknowledging our Governments financial and infrastructural limitations and realising the existing of poor, disadvantaged and vulnerable groups among us, we are determined to offer quality health services to all through :Public Private Partnership arrangement with our Local Government Authority and collaboration with all other stakeholders.Principles of equity where we offer services not only at the centre but also through a Community Home based Care Facility and with a target exemption provision to unable to pay Clients. Comprehensive and Integrated approach by coordinating of all activities in our strategic plans be it preventive, curative, rehabilitative, educative or health promotion in liaison with other health providers in the regionQuality Assurance Strategy where supervision, open performance appraisals and helpful clients suggestions are considered.
4. WHERE WE OPERATE FROMChirangi road Kwangwa Area P. O. Box 666Musoma, MaraTanzania.Tel. +255 (28) 2622160
5. WORKING PHILOSOPHYWe believe in efficient management and good stewardship. We therefore cling to practical and appropriate procedures that manifest integrity, innovation, effective use of resources and ethical considerations for holistic development of Mankind.Each client will be offered health services without distinction of any kind such as race, ethnic group, colour, sex, language, religion, political or another opinion, national and social origin, fortune, birth or other status. (Based on the African Charter on Human and Peoples Rights, art. 2)
6. SERVICES OFFERED AT THE CENTREOpening Hours Generally the centre is in operation for 24 hours, everyday. However, on Public holidaysservices continues to be offered with minimal required resources. ServicesAt the centre Clients can get health services through:Out-PatientIn-Patients Department (for Patients who require short hospitalization).Services include among others:Diagnostic Services through Laboratory, Radiology units.Curative Services both Medical and Surgical Nursing & Rehabilitative CareCounselling servicesIn-Patient care in Wards (limited)Reproductive & Child Health CareHealth Promotion & Health Education programmes e.g. preventive services of vaccination, control of HIV/ AIDS, Oral Health etcFrom quality services to quality life.
9. SERVICES OFFERED THROUGH HOME BASED CARE (HBC)CoverageThis facility starts at a low profile and shall be expanded gradually based on needs assessment in the service area and availability of resources both human and materials.How to get Home Based Care Either a Client or his/her representative needs to contact the health centre if in need of a service from this facility. Thereafter our worker shall visit him / her to make more specific arrangement about days, times, frequency of visit and the kind of services to be offered. Some (special) cases can be initiated through our workers and or the community findings.
11. Services: Following the Tanzanian Ministry of Health & Social Welfare guidelines (2005) and upon arrangement, we offer HBC in accordance with the available resources either to people with Chronic diseases such as HIV/ AIDS, Tuberculosis, Diabetes, Cancer, Degenerative Joint diseases , Orphans, to Elderly People or to people with disabilities in the following:Counselling & Testing
17. Functional Referral System etcCOSTS CHARGESInformation about our charges (user fees) of all the services we offer at the centre and at homes, is available for our clients at the administartion.
19. over Bethsaida, onze kliniek waarvoor wij o.a nog medische- en lab. apparatuur zoeken Wij zijn nog op zoek naar een:biochemistry machinehematolocical machinecardio-echo-apparaatof een gewoon echoapparaat met een doppler apparaat. otoscoopendoscoopEen OK tafelKlein lab materiaal (alles)StethoscopenBedschermenUitzuigapparatuur voor babiesHandbeademingsapparatuur voor babiesVacuumextractorSteriele handschoenenIV setsFolleycatheters maten 14, 16 en 18Verder is alle materiaal op gynaecologisch gebied en op het gebied van verloskunde welkom. Geen verlosbedden, die hebben we al.Separaat stuur ik je nog wat foto's. Het transport is geen probleem.
20. CONTACTFor all inquiries that relate to the services (Both at the centre and Home Based Care)Dr. BwireChirangi, MPH E-Mail: bmchirangi@yahoo.co.ukTel. + 255 713538740 For all inquiries that related to organisation and financial issuesMrs. Elisabeth de Quant, E-Mail: dequant1@ziggo.nlDetails of our Bank AccountCRDB Bank Ltd. Musoma Branch Account number: 01J1062767600 Swiftcode number: CORUTZTZ