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“The first wealth is health.”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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With basic health care,
75 percent of women
and children who die
from preventable illness
can be saved
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A health worker will
save at least 350
lives during her
career
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Training a health
worker in Tanzania
is seven times
cheaper than
abroad
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Bugando hospital and university overlook
Lake Victoria, the largest lake in Africa
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776 students, enrolled in 8 different training
programs, attend Bugando’s university in Tanzania
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Medical students
go through five
years of formal
training and an
additional year of
post-graduate work
to become
physicians
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One of Touch Foundation’s first projects was the
construction of a 320 student dormitory
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Over the next five years, Bugando will more than
double the number of doctors in the Lake Zone
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In November 2008,
Bugando’s first class
of nine medical
students graduated
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His Excellency
President Jakaya
Kikwete attended
the graduation of
Bugando’s first
class of physicians
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Along with supporting the
university, we are
working with Bugando’s
hospital leadership to
assist in infrastructure
and operating
improvements
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Bugando’s hospital admits over
60,000 patients a year
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The hospital serves 15 million people
living in the Lake Zone region of Tanzania
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We have partnered
with the Abbott
Fund to rebuild and
modernize three
laboratories in
2009
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Rural dispensaries are often isolated and
under-staffed
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“He who has health, has hope.
And he who has hope, has everything.”- Ancient Proverb
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