“With the opening of this clinic, our students and other children in the area can get the health care they need. Our students are well served academically. With the medical clinic they can thrive fully.”
– Charles Sloan, Margery Wolf Kuhn Schools Manager
For the first time, MWK Schools and the under-served community surrounding the schools have an easily accessible, fully staffed medical clinic.
The CWS Clinic opened with 8 staff members: Clinic Director Mastidia K. Rutaihwa, MD, 2 lab technicians, 2 clinicians, and 3 nurses. It operates 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. The number of patients served grows daily as the word spreads throughout the area.
Bagamoyo, a town of 30,000 where the clinic and schools are located, previously offered only one government hospital with limited medical supplies and staff and a few small clinics offering limited services.
Emergency patients, once typically transferred to hospitals in Dar es Salaam for treatments, endured a stressful 3-4 hour ambulance ride in the traffic-jams of Dar es Salaam. They can now find help nearby.
The CWS Clinic was the dream of Charles W Sloan, Esq, the father of Charles W. Sloan, Jr., founder and manager of MWK Schools and the Clinic board secretary. In founding the Clinic, Sloan, Jr, and his wife Dr Rutaihwa bring together medical services and educational opportunities for the students and staff of MWK Schools.
“Simple medical treatments given immediately can save lives,” says Dr. Rutaihwa, pictured left with Father Thadeus Mathias Siya at the clinic opening. “With a medical doctor, educated staff and pharmacy drugs consistently available, the clinic will provide much-needed medical services to students and neighbors. Access to a well-organized and staffed clinic is life changing,” she adds.
The need was great. Prevalent conditions like diabetes, many organ disorders and other diseases typically went untreated. Particularly dire was the lack of access to operations and emergency procedures.
Dr. Charles Gerald Njau consults with a new patient
Four clinic staff members Irene Kasela, Clinician; Asha Ally, Nurse Assistant; Asha Mjenha, RN; and, Omari Hussein, lab technician
Clinic Director Mastidia K. Rutaihwa with Father Thadeus Mathias Siya
Omari Hussein, lab technician, with new microscope
Father Thadeus Mathias Siya
Father Thadeus Mathias Siya plants a palm in front of the clinic
Accessible toilet
The CWS Clinic comes after years of planning, fundraising, building, and successfully navigating red tape and government controls.
“We could not have done it without the generosity of individual donors and organizations,” say the couple, Sloan and Rutaihwa. Founding contributors include W. O’Neil Fund and Michael and Suzanna Kay Carney through the Carney Family Trust.
The CWS Clinic is supported by the Tanzanian Medical Fund (TMF), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. The Tanzania Education Fund and MWK Schools are affiliated organizations.
Mail your donations to the CWS Clinic to:
Tanzania Medical Fund, Inc.
223 Walnut Lane, NW
Vienna, VA 22180
Direct inquiries to Daphne Sloan, Executive Director.
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