Dar es Salaam. The Aga Khan Hospital has been challenged to find ways of enabling more people from the low-income bracket to access quality health services from its state-of-the-art facilities.
The appeal was made by Dar es Salaam City Mayor Isaya Mwita yesterday when he participated at the official opening of the state-of-the-art Dental and Implant Care Centre at the hospital.
“Then majority of Tanzanians are poor, and thus they cannot access quality health services. My request to you is to roll out some plans which will also enable these poor people to also enjoy the health services you are issuing,” he pleaded before the hospital management.
For his part, regional CEO of the Aga Khan Health Services charged with East Africa, Mr Sulaiman Shahabuddin, noted that the hospital would continue to maintain relations with Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Science (Muhas) to enable it produce enough specialists to curb the shortage facing hospitals in the country.
“We aim to make Aga Khan Hospital a centre of excellence in provision of dental services in Tanzania. We will continue to collaborate with the government through the health ministry and Muhas in ensuring that we improve the health care service delivery,” he noted.
At the same occasion, Aga Khan Health Services Regional Director of Dental and Implant Department for East Africa, Dr Amir Lalani, said that the launching of the upgraded dental unit was a part of expansion programme implemented by the hospital in ensuring that it transforms medical services.
“We are now receiving patients from abroad as a result of improvement of our facilities and medical services we offer. People travel long distances to have treatment at our hospital. We see it as a great achievement,” he noted.
Meanwhile, Aga Khan Hospital chief operating officer Sisawo Konteh assured that between nine and ten health centres will be built across the country by the end of this year.
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