Human Capacity Building for Quality Eye Health Care in Western Tanzania

Situation:

About four million people in the Rukwa, Katavi and Kigoma regions of Western Tanzania are without adequate eye care. About 0,5 percent of the people are blind and 1,7 percent suffer from moderate or severe visual impairment. Up to 80 percent of visual impairments are avoidable or treatable. Many people‘s life and earning capacity can be improved by improving basic eye care services.
 

Objectives:

Poor people in the regions of Rukwa, Katavi, and Kigoma have better access to quality eye health services.

Humanitarian award of 100,000 euros goes to Medical Director of Attat Hospital, Sister Rita Schiffer

Bad Homburg v.d. Höhe, October 13, 2022 – This year the Else Kröner Fresenius Award for Development Cooperation in Medicine is going to Sister Rita Schiffer from the Medical Mission Sisters, a gynecologist and medical director of Attat Hospital in Ethiopia, for the project “Sustainable Surgical Care in Attat”. At 100,000 euros it is one of the most important and best-endowed prizes in the field of development cooperation in medicine.