With the rising demand for improved healthcare services in Africa due to having insufficient specialized personnels, access to modernized equipment and medical technology, countries including Tanzania are taking measures to bring costful treatments mainly found abroad closer to their citizens. Even though there are private health facilities offering some of these expensive and highly skilled...
A lot of patients admitted at the Ocean Road Cancer Institute (ORCI) in Dar es Salaam come from lake zone regions. Minister of State in the Vice President’s Office (Union and Environment), Selemani Jafo said this during a Parliamentary Trade, Industry and Environment Committee’s visit at a mine in Mwine village in Kahama, Shinyanga. Jafo...
It should be known that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The 13th day of this month has been chosen as the ‘No Bra Day’ to promote breast cancer awareness to the community. Women are encouraged not to wear a bra on this day, to remind the community that breast cancer is a fatal disease....