Mnazi Mmoja Hospital
Mnazi Mmoja is the main referral hospital in Zanzibar. The hospital itself is located in the Stone Town, the historic centre of Zanzibar City. It comprises of outpatient clinic, specialised clinics as well as several wards for the inpatient services. Although termed as the referral hospital, basic outapatient services are also provided to the nearby communities.
The hospital contains 400 beds. The speciality departments include pediatrics, surgery, internal medicine, acupuncture, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, obstetric and gynaecology, maternity services, dental and eye (ophthalomology). The hospital is fairly well-staffed with doctors, nurses, mid-wives, nursing students and a number of foreign medical students. Regularly foreign doctors also work at the hospital, which is the product of medical exchange programmes between Zanzibar and other countries such as Cuba, China, Egypt, Russia and Sweden.
Mwembeladu Maternity Home, located at Mwembeladu (about 2 km from the main campus) offers maternity and reproductive and child health servives, is a branch of Mnazi Mmoja Referral Hospital. Bed capacity is 34.
Another branch of the hospital is Kidongo Chekundu Mental Hospital, located at KIdongo Chekundu (about 3 km from the main campus) which offers psychiatry services. Bed capacity is 110.
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