We plan to work in both the hospital setting and in rural parts of Tanzania at small clinics. Our hope is to provide extra hands to reach a wider population and to help promote collaboration between the hospital and western medical workers.
The underserved populations of rural Tanzania will benefit the most from our project. The family we are going to visit does outreach clinics to remote areas of Tanzania to provide medical care. These populations are some of the most unreached people groups and their goal is to provide consistent medical care by traveling to these remote areas monthly to provide care.
The purpose of this trip is to help establish a relationship with global medical centers as my wife and I are interested in continuing to participate in global health work, either through consistent short term medical trips or moving to a global setting to provide medical care long term. The experiences from this trip will help make that decision and the opportunity to serve in a severely underserved environment will help us be better stewards of our resources when practicing in the US.
We were able to partner with a western trained pediatrician by helping him provide education and training to national doctors on the pediatric ward at one of the larger referral hospitals in the area.
Additionally, the pediatrician we visited was in charge of facilitating sickle cell outreach clinics to remote areas of Tanzania where their team was able to provide basic sickle cell education, treatment and testing to hundreds of Tanzanians who would not have access to sickle cell care otherwise.
