Presentation of the Centre
The Aga Khan Hospital is an institution of Aga Khan Health Service, Tanzania evolved from a dispensary in Dar es Salaam has been providing accessible, high-quality, cost-effective healthcare services to the people of Tanzania for over 90 years, to a 170-beds centre, a world-class health care facility, providing specialised care, combined with cutting-edge technology and highly skilled human resources.
In 2014 it launched its cancer programme by establishing a state-of-art chemotherapy and surgical oncology and currently is a reference cancer care centre with well-established state-of-the-art radiation therapy unit in the Region.
The Hospital provides advanced clinical programmes in all the medical specialities, supported by advanced diagnostics, integrated surgery rooms and sophisticated emergency departments.
The Hospital is the only one in Tanzania receiving in 2016 the prestigious gold standard quality accreditation from the Joint Commission International (JCI), confirmed in 2019. Besides JCI, the Hospital is also SADCAS-certified for pathology, and OHCs (SafeCare).
Main Research Activities
The partnership between the Hospital and the Aga Khan University encompasses joint research activities, from prevention to screening, other than basic, and translational research. The Hospital, in partnership with other 3 main cancer hospitals in the country, gave origin to the innovative public private- partnership “Tanzania Comprehensive Cancer Project” (TCCP), jointly funded by AFD, Gate Foundation and the Aga Khan Foundation, that has evolved to East Africa Comprehensive Cancer Project (EA-CCP) to promote common programmes of cancer research and care in Kenya, Zanzibar and Mainland Tanzania.
Core Facilities
Expanding Access to Equitable Healthcare Through an Integrated Health System. Our 'Hub & Spoke' model drives increased access to affordable, high-quality services by linking Aga Khan Hospital’s tertiary care services as the central hub to Aga Khan Hospital, Mwanza which serves as the sub hub, and 19 Outreach Health Centres that serve as spokes providing a unified continuum of care for cancer services from prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, palliative care, survivorship and rehabilitation at national level.
Education
The Aga Khan University and the Aga Khan Hospital, offer postgraduate residency programmes in Internal Medicine, Surgery, Family Medicine, Obstetrics and gynaecology, Paediatrics, and short-term training courses for palliative care, chemotherapy, biotherapy, and continuous medical education for doctors, nurses and technicians.
Moreover, the Hospital accepts over 60 medical, nursing and Allied health interns from the MoH of Tanzania, and exchanges medical students and volunteers from all over the world.