CERVICAL CANCER
SCREENING PROGRAM
JANUARY 2015
Lindi Islamic Foundation of Tanzania (LIFT) in partnership with Stepping Together Inc. (USA)
Dr. Kenya Numan from Stepping Together and Dr. Nur from LIFT upon the team’s initial
arrival at Kitomanga Health Center
The Stepping Together host (Zuwena) and Dr. K. Bingham wait for welcoming ceremony at
Kitomanag
Mohamed (LIFT Health Committee) greets Dr. Kenya
The guest volunteers Dr. K. Bingham and Kerri RN with their home host in Kitomanga
LIFT volunteers assemble tent for welcoming ceremony
MP Mhe Said Mtanda welcomes guests
Dr. Nur (LIFT) and Dr. K. Bingham (Stepping Together)
LIFT, Stepping Together, and MP for Kitomanga pose with a patient
Patients take shelter form the light rain
Patients and villagers wait for opening remarks
Welcoming Ceremony
Welcoming Ceremony
Kitomanga Village Chair makes welcoming remarks
Kitomanga Staff and Patients listen to Welcoming Remarks
The Honorable Said Mtanda (MP ) welcomes our volunteer guests
Dr. Zulfa Msami (Co Chair of LIFT Health & Sanitation Committee) welcomes
guests and summarizes LIFT’s programs.
Dr. Nur (Founder and Executive Director of LIFT) introduces the Stepping Together American
team of health volunteers
The hardworking team form Stepping Together Inc. (USA)
Dr. Zulfa Msami and Zuwena (LIFT)
The Guest of Honor, the Regional Commissioner Deputy (Dr. Hassan
Hussein Ahsia)
Villagers listen to the welcoming remarks
After Opening Ceremony, tour of the ward where the clinic would begin the following day. This was an empty building a few weeks earlier.
After setup of the clinic
Day 1 of clinic- Patients await outside
Day 1 of clinic- Patients await outside
Patients are given lunch
Patients are given lunch
Patients are given lunch
After the end of the first day for screening women, Tanzania and American health team pose for a
picture
Day 2 of Screening- Patients are being registered
Patient being screened
Dr. K. with trainee
Trainee from Mchinga Dispensary
Nurse from Sokoine Hospital (Lindi Regional Hospital) –job well done!
Nurse from Sokoine Hospital (Lindi Regional Hospital) with patient –job well done!
Special Chair the Honorable Riziki Ludida visits clinic and talks with Dr. Kenya
Patients, health team, psoe with Mhe. Riziki Ludida
Dr. Hamis Ajali (LIFT) Dr. Kenya Numan (Stepping Together), and Trainee Vera (Kitomanga) discuss
treatment options with patient.
The LIFT men behind the success, all are members of LIFT Health & Sanitation
Committee. They made sure supplies and patients were transported, patients were
referred, patients were fed and much more.
Mohamed (LIFT) arrived with patients from Kilolambwani after a night of heavy rain
Mohamed (LIFT) arrived with patients from Kilolambwani after a night of heavy rain
Patient after her exam
Kerri Johnson, RN the nurse in-charge. She made sure all records were accurate and their was a good
flow of patients.
Dr. Kenya consults
Dr. Zulfa Msami (LIFT)
Grandmother with here orphaned grandson arrive from Mtapwa on motorcycle. She was
familiar to us as LIFT provided infant formula milk for the baby for one year.
The Busiest day of the clinic. 58 women seen on Day 4.
The Busiest day of the clinic. 58 women seen on Day 4.
Day 4 of clinic- Patients eat lunch and Dr. Zulfa counsels a teenage mother on
nutrition for her child.
At Aga Khan Hospital in Dar es Salaam. The Pap Smear kits are delivered for
pathological testing.