Cervical cancer screening program

CERVICAL CANCER

SCREENING PROGRAM

JANUARY 2015

Lindi Islamic Foundation of Tanzania (LIFT) in partnership with Stepping Together Inc. (USA)

Dr. Kenya Numan from Stepping Together and Dr. Nur from LIFT upon the team’s initial

arrival at Kitomanga Health Center

The Stepping Together host (Zuwena) and Dr. K. Bingham wait for welcoming ceremony at

Kitomanag

Mohamed (LIFT Health Committee) greets Dr. Kenya

The guest volunteers Dr. K. Bingham and Kerri RN with their home host in Kitomanga

LIFT volunteers assemble tent for welcoming ceremony

MP Mhe Said Mtanda welcomes guests

Dr. Nur (LIFT) and Dr. K. Bingham (Stepping Together)

LIFT, Stepping Together, and MP for Kitomanga pose with a patient

Patients take shelter form the light rain

Patients and villagers wait for opening remarks

Welcoming Ceremony

Welcoming Ceremony

Kitomanga Village Chair makes welcoming remarks

Kitomanga Staff and Patients listen to Welcoming Remarks

The Honorable Said Mtanda (MP ) welcomes our volunteer guests

Dr. Zulfa Msami (Co Chair of LIFT Health & Sanitation Committee) welcomes

guests and summarizes LIFT’s programs.

Dr. Nur (Founder and Executive Director of LIFT) introduces the Stepping Together American

team of health volunteers

The hardworking team form Stepping Together Inc. (USA)

Dr. Zulfa Msami and Zuwena (LIFT)

The Guest of Honor, the Regional Commissioner Deputy (Dr. Hassan

Hussein Ahsia)

Villagers listen to the welcoming remarks

After Opening Ceremony, tour of the ward where the clinic would begin the following day. This was an empty building a few weeks earlier.

After setup of the clinic

Day 1 of clinic- Patients await outside

Day 1 of clinic- Patients await outside

Patients are given lunch

Patients are given lunch

Patients are given lunch

After the end of the first day for screening women, Tanzania and American health team pose for a

picture

Day 2 of Screening- Patients are being registered

Patient being screened

Dr. K. with trainee

Trainee from Mchinga Dispensary

Nurse from Sokoine Hospital (Lindi Regional Hospital) –job well done!

Nurse from Sokoine Hospital (Lindi Regional Hospital) with patient –job well done!

Special Chair the Honorable Riziki Ludida visits clinic and talks with Dr. Kenya

Patients, health team, psoe with Mhe. Riziki Ludida

Dr. Hamis Ajali (LIFT) Dr. Kenya Numan (Stepping Together), and Trainee Vera (Kitomanga) discuss

treatment options with patient.

The LIFT men behind the success, all are members of LIFT Health & Sanitation

Committee. They made sure supplies and patients were transported, patients were

referred, patients were fed and much more.

Mohamed (LIFT) arrived with patients from Kilolambwani after a night of heavy rain

Mohamed (LIFT) arrived with patients from Kilolambwani after a night of heavy rain

Patient after her exam

Kerri Johnson, RN the nurse in-charge. She made sure all records were accurate and their was a good

flow of patients.

Dr. Kenya consults

Dr. Zulfa Msami (LIFT)

Grandmother with here orphaned grandson arrive from Mtapwa on motorcycle. She was

familiar to us as LIFT provided infant formula milk for the baby for one year.

The Busiest day of the clinic. 58 women seen on Day 4.

The Busiest day of the clinic. 58 women seen on Day 4.

Day 4 of clinic- Patients eat lunch and Dr. Zulfa counsels a teenage mother on

nutrition for her child.

At Aga Khan Hospital in Dar es Salaam. The Pap Smear kits are delivered for

pathological testing.