Volunteering in Neurosurgery: Experience in Tanzania with an NGO

VOLUNTEERING IN NEUROSURGERYMy experience in Tanzania with an NGO

NED (Neurosurgery, Education and Development)

Paloma Jiménez Arribas

TANZANIA. BASIC INFORMATION

Population: 51.82 million

Is a presidential constitutional republic

Capital city: Dodoma, where government is located.Dar es Salaam, is the country's largest city, principal port, and leading commercial centre.

Religion: 79.8% Muslim (98% in Zanzibar), 14.2% Christian, 3.2 % follow traditional African religions.

British colony. Independence from the United Kingdom 1961 (Zanzibar 1963). Speak English, drive on the left.

Swahili and English are Tanzania's official languages.

Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, is in northeastern Tanzania.

The hospital

Ground floor: outpatient clinic. Rest room.

1st floor: ward (men, women and paediatric). 6 beds each.

2nd floor: theater (2), recovery, warehouse.

CT scan: local hospital. MRI: Dar es salaam.

The team

2 Neurosurgeons. 1 resident.

1 anesthesist.

2 scrub nurses.

2 family doctors. 1 general surgery resident.

2 anesthesists.

Nurses. .

Procedures

Hidrocephalus

Nural tube defects.

Neurotrauma (brain and spine)

Degenerative spine.

TEACH

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