The Tobora Town Council (TTC) has entered into
agreement with four medical experts from Switzerland who would be carrying two
major operations for prostate cancer and hydrocele testis at a regional Kiteto hospital located in Tabora
town, these are among the serious diseases affecting mostly aged men. The
hospital is among the few recently upgraded into a magnificent scale after
undergoing huge renovation works by the ministry of Health and given the status
of being among the few referral hospitals in the country. A Member of
Parliament for Tabora Urban, Ismail Aden Rage said on Friday last week in Dar
es Salaam that, the ministry of Health and Social Services has accomplished all
the procedures that would allow the experts to undergo the operations which are
due to start in March this year.
He told a Press Conference that, the agreement
entered with the experts would run exclusively in five years’ time during which
people would be checked freely and that, the experts would come with their own
medical apparatuses for that purpose. Rage noted that, being an MP for the area
he has also asked the government to institute nursing training courses at the
hospital which currently is used as a training ground for medical
practitioners. Explaining about the two diseases, he said that, there are signs
of many men who suffers the diseases after undergoing a research in the region and
that is why the management of the town council resorted for help from outside
the country. According to him, the Kiteto hospital would be the second hospital
in the country to have undergoing major operations on prostate cancer after the
Aga Khan hospital in Dar es Salaam which he noted that if is not treated
earlier it results into deaths. The Kiteto hospital was established by the
British government during colonial era and before that, the ground on which the
hospital was constructed was used as a military camp for the German during the
First World War.
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