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Americans to help open HIV clinic in Arusha
2006-01-31 09:07:04
By Guardian Reporter
A Team of American doctors will visit Arusha this week to help open an outpatient Aids clinic.
The doctors from Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, California, left the US on Saturday and were due to arrive in Arusha yesterday, according to reports reaching The Guardian from Pasadena.
A medical team led by Dr Kimberly Shriner will also help provide health care and education about HIV to patients at Upone Charitable Medical Centre.
’We are thrilled to be making our fourth trip to Tanzania in January,’ Dr Shriner said.
’This time, in addition to our work with Upone, a new focus will be helping to open an outpatient Aids clinic in nearby Moivaro Village.’
A physician with Upone Charitable Medical Centre, Dr Soloman ole Logilunore, said the relationship was mutually beneficial.
’This relationship has been as valuable to the healthcare practitioners at Huntington as it’s been to the Africans. We learn so much about the human spirit from these people,’ he said.
Huntington Hospital donates the medical supplies while medical personnel pay for their own airfare and other expenses.
The Phil Simon Clinic at Huntington Hospital will host an event in April to raise money for Upone Charitable Medical Centre.
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