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Dar es Salaam — The Aga Khan School of Nursing and Midwifery has initiated a training programme--Respectful Maternity Care--with a view to providing skills to nurses, midwives and clinical officers in public hospitals, dispensaries and health centres.

The programme was launched yesterday with more than 50 trainees including nurses, midwives and clinical officers from Ilala and Temeke district councils in Dar es Salaam city.

Agha Khan University Hospital. [Photo/softkenya.com]

The Agha Khan hospital has acquired a state of the art cancer screening machine, the first of its kind in Kenya.

This comes in the wake of mounting cases of cancer in the country.
The Positron Emission Tomography (PET) CT scanner and Cyclotron has the ability to detect cancer and specifying its stage.

Agha Khan is expected to launch the machine March next year after training of the staff.
619 million shillings was used to acquire it and its expected to save patients the trouble of traveling abroad in search of screening services.

The government in Mwanza Region has requested Aga Khan Foundation in Tanzania, to look into the possibility of constructing a new hospital in Mwanza City to work hand in hand with Sekou Toure Regional Hospital.

The Acting Regional Commissioner, Ferdinand Mkude, when officially inaugurating a surgery room in the Aga Khan Health Centre in the city, which cost Tsh. 20 million issued the request. Mkude, who also is Nyamagana District Commissioner in Mwanza City said the city was expanding fast in parallel with population growth.