Latest addition to improving Muhimbili menu of services

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Latest addition to improving Muhimbili menu of services
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10Sep 2018
Henry Mwangonde
DAR ES SALAAM
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Latest addition to improving Muhimbili menu of services

• Officials describe this as latest milestone for country’s No. 1 referral hospital after successfully introducing several other previously-inaccessible services

THE Muhimbili National Hospital (MNH) is now offering regular interventional radiology services that can run up costs amounting to almost 100 million/- per patient if performed abroad.

To begin with, the Dar es Salaam-based largest referral hospital in the country is conducting nephrostomy tube placements, percutaneous trans-hepatic biliary drainages, and fallopian tube recanalizations, according to MNH director of clinical services Dr Praxeda Ogweyo.
Interventional radiology refers to a range of techniques which rely on the use radiological image guidance (X-ray fluoroscopy, ultrasound, computed tomography, or magnetic resonance imaging -MRI) to precisely target therapy.
It is a medical sub-specialty of radiology utilizing minimally-invasive image-guided procedures to diagnose and treat diseases in nearly every organ system.
Most of the treatments are minimally invasive alternatives to open and laparoscopic (keyhole) surgery. As many radiological procedures start with passing a needle through the skin to the target, it is sometimes called pinhole surgery.
Speaking at a press conference yesterday, Dr Ogweyo said the usual cost for a patient to receive such services abroad is in the region of 96 million/-.
Since the hospital started offering the services last year, it has managed to save 3.96 billion/-, she explained, adding that so far 45 Tanzanians have received the services.
“Beforehand, the resources that MNH have were used for diagnosis only, after which patients were referred abroad for treatment. But now we also have the technical knowhow to do the treatment here ourselves,” Dr Ogweyo said.
Other services offered currently include abscesses drainage, and sclerotherapy for haemangioma and lymphangioma.
Officials describe this as yet another milestone achievement for MNH after the successful introduction of several other previously-inaccessible key services over the past two years.
Cochlear implant surgery services were launched in June last year, followed by radiology intervention, kidney and liver transplant services in quick order.

 

[Illakwahhi]

Pumbf mnaleta menu ya muhimbili kwenye forums ??acheni ujinga na kila hospital ikileta menu yake,low profile news shouldn't be here,JF siku hz ya kijinga aisee

 

[REDEEMER.]

Pumbf mnaleta menu ya muhimbili kwenye forums ??acheni ujinga na kila hospital ikileta menu yake,low profile news shouldn't be here,JF siku hz ya kijinga aisee

Do you know the concept of providing for the first time the interventional radiology services that can run up costs amounting to almost 100 million/- per patient if performed abroad??

Could you bring this kind of service performed anywhere in the Eastern Africa 🌍?

 

[Baba lake]

Do you know the concept of providing for the first time the interventional radiology services that can run up costs amounting to almost 100 million/- per patient if performed abroad??

Could you bring this kind of service performed anywhere in the Eastern Africa 🌍?

I am positive there's no such place in East African countries aside from MNH as patients wouldn't have been going abroad to face those unnecessary costs. This is East African great achievement a reason why this news must be shared throughout.

 

[thisdayes]

Do you know the concept of providing for the first time the interventional radiology services that can run up costs amounting to almost 100 million/- per patient if performed abroad??

Could you bring this kind of service performed anywhere in the Eastern Africa [emoji288]?

This is a milestone, medical tourism should be our next big income contributor.
Jamaa amekurupuka sana.
Huwaga wanakuja kama hao, dawa yao ni kuwapa kubwa kama hivi.

 

[joto la jiwe]

Tanzania is a father of this zone, it must not only plan for its citizens, but for the citizens of whole region as well, because other countries don't care much for the poor of the poorest, to them malls, tall buildings and flyovers are more important than anything.