ORCI is the only specialised cancer institute in Tanzania, along with one of the oldest institutes in the country, located along the Indian ocean about 200m from the beach. It works under the ministry of health, so is funded by the government, but works along side the Tanzanian community to offer the services they are in need of most.
The hospital is a referral insitute for about 3,500 patients a year and follows about 10,000 patients through in a year. The services it offers includes:
- General laboratory services
- Diagnostic imaging including X-Rays, Ultrasound, Mammography and Nucleur Medicine
- Chemotherapy delivery
- Radiotherapy treatment - Treating 150-200 patients a day, over 24 hours
- Outpatient cancer patient clinics
- Inpatient services
- Palliative care services - The delivery of oral morphine, counsilling and spiritual services
- Cervical and breast cancer screening outreach programme and screening itself - ORCI is the only hospital that offers this service in Tanzania, they use exsisting family planning clinics and reproductive health services to integrate this into practice
- HIV/AIDS care and clinic
- Offers teaching programmes for undergraduates and post graduates in medicine and other healthcare courses
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