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Maternity service

Overview of Delivery Services

Medical care during pregnancy, childbirth, and the recovery period. Core offerings feature antenatal care (ANC), skilled birth attendance by midwives and doctors, safe surgical options like Caesarean Sections, emergency obstetric care, and essential postpartum checks for mothers and newborns.

Maternity care spans four primary phases to ensure the health of both parent and child:Antenatal (Prenatal) Care: Regular health checks, ultrasounds, nutrition counseling, and screening for risk factors.Labor and Delivery: Active monitoring of contractions, pain management choices, vaginal delivery, or emergency surgical options.Immediate Recovery: Monitoring vital signs, bleeding checks, and initial newborn care during the first two hours post-birth.Postnatal Care: Follow-up visits up to six weeks after delivery to support healing, breastfeeding, and infant vaccinations

The Maternal Health Unit (MAH) provides leadership for improving maternal and perinatal health and well-being and ending preventable maternal mortality. MAH generates programmatic-focused evidence, develops guidelines, norms and standards, and supports regions and countries in adaptation, implementation and monitoring of person-centered quality and respectful maternal and perinatal care through advocacy, partnerships, policy dialogue and capacity building.

Reproductive and Child Health (RCH)

Reproductive and Child Health (RCH) services focus on lowering sickness and death rates for mothers, babies, and young children. These programs provide safe pregnancy care, routine child vaccinations, family planning, and disease prevention to support healthy families

Routine Immunizations: Vaccines protecting infants against polio, measles, tuberculosis, and other childhood diseases.
Growth Monitoring: Regular tracking of weight and height to prevent malnutrition.
Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI): Fast diagnosis and treatment for common issues like diarrhea, malaria, and respiratory infections.
Giving Vitamin A and nutritional support to under-five children.

Antenatal Care (Prenatal)

In Arusha City Hospital, there are several Ante Natal Service which are well offered by using our very own Specialists including the following;

Early pregnancy testing and routine counselling
Minimum of eight health provider contacts during pregnancy
Blood tests, blood pressure checks, and infection screenings
Supplements and preventative medicines like malaria treatment

Delivery Services (Childbirth)

In Arusha City Hospital, there are several Delivery (Childbirth) Service which are well offered by using our very own Specialists including the following;

Skilled care from nurses and midwives in safe spaces
Clean and supportive birthing room options
Emergency care for dangerous labor complications
Safe surgical care when needed

Postnatal Care (After Birth)

In Arusha City Hospital, there are several Postnatal Care (After Birth) Service which are well offered by using our very own Specialists including the following;

Health checks for mothers during the first six weeks
Newborn care and initial immunizations
Support and guidance on feeding and recovery
Postpartum mental health and family planning advice

Details on Maternal / Delivery Services

Our efforts towards reducing maternal and newborn mortality and morbidity are at the national, regional and district level and include supporting government to improve infrastructure and increase quality human resources for health. To develop the capacity of skilled birth attendance we provide training in life-saving emergency obstetric and newborn care, including hands-on training through mentorship programmes. We continue to invest in midwifery education and regulation in line with international standards, and support the deployment of skilled midwives to humanitarian settings to deliver quality maternal and newborn care, including emergency obstetric and newborn care.

We use innovative approaches to reach marginalized women in rural areas of Tanzania with quality maternal and newborn health services, boosting the role of midwives and using new technologies, including the mobile learning system “mhealth”.

Delivery Services