The four Aga Khan Primary Medical Centres (PMCs) are located in urban towns of Tanzania, namely Dodoma, Iringa, Mbeya, Morogoro and newly established Mwanza Medical Centre located in Mwanza City.
These centres are the first line of care and point of contact for the communities in which they operate. These centres are placed amidst populations with demanding health care needs, and where presently, quality primary health care services are very limited. The urban catchment population of these centres is upwards of 2.5 million people, and they are highly utilized, attending to approx. 200 to 250 outpatients daily.
These centres provide essential clinical services, meeting the needs of the populations they serve while offering the care necessary for a broad spectrum of conditions. These include acute communicable diseases, chronic non-communicable diseases, women's health, referral of complicated cases, routine mother, newborn, and child health (MNCH) services, voluntary counselling and testing (VCT). Other essential services including clinical laboratory, pharmacy, X-ray, ECG, ultrasound, Echo cardiogram and treatment room for minor and major procedures.
Overall, these centres provide a network of high quality health care in Tanzania's urban centres, and are currently being upgraded to learning sites, which will provide a unique opportunity for training of health professionals.
These centres are playing a critical role on the development of AKHST integrated health systems all linked digitally using a hub and spoke model to increase access to services at a lower cost, higher quality and more efficient manner linking the various tiers of care in a unified continuum, ensuring accountability for care. Mwanza Medical Centre is serving as a referral site for Aga Khan OHCs and other Government facilities for different services and specialties. It’s offering key specialists services to patients at more accessible and closer to the community. The other 4 PMCS are linked with Aga Khan main tertiary hospital in Dar es Salaam. The unique model is forming a strong district health system for the regions and significantly impacting on reducing poor health indicators.
These centres have also been engaging with other development partners, including the Ministry of Health in the implementation of special projects through public private partnerships, to provide services, support health systems strengthening across the public health systems and building capacity.
Head of Outreach Health Services
Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam
Ocean Road, P.O. Box 2289
Direct Line: +255 (0) 788 230 540
Office Extension: 6041, 6042, 6085
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Aga Khan Medical Centre, Dodoma
6th Street Municipality, P.O. Box 270, Dodoma
Direct Line: +255 (0) 686 312 489
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Aga Khan Medical Centre, Iringa
Jamaat Street, P.O. Box 119, Iringa
Direct Line: +255 (0) 686 312 490
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Aga Khan Medical Centre, Mbeya
Azimio Street, Opp Main bus Stand, P.O. Box 292, Mbeya
Direct Line: +255 (0) 684 621 346
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Aga Khan Medical Centre, Morogoro
Boma Road, P.O. Box 159, Morogoro
Direct Line: +255 (0) 788 538 537
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The Aga Khan Mwanza Medical Centre
Miti Mirefu Road, P.O. Box 692, Mwanza
Direct Line: +255 (0) 686 364 540
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AKHS,T since 2014 to-date, has established 20 Outreach Health Centres (OHCs), out of which 16 are under Dar es Salaam cluster and 4 in Mwanza cluster, which are located in different strategic market segments. The first OHC was established in 2013 at Mbezi Beach, Dar es Salaam. 13 OHCs are within the heart of the Commercial city in Dar es Salaam. One OHC is in Kibaha area which is on the outskirt of Dar es Salaam whilst 2 OHCs are based in up country i.e. Tanga and Tabora. These OHCs are directly linked to the Main Hospital in Dar es Salaam and Mwanza Medical Centre, with fully integrated health system to enhance access to quality and affordable health care for local communities within the region.
These centres are outpatient base working on 12 hourly shift to provide medical consultations (RMO services and Specialist consultants), Laboratory services, X-Ray services, Ultrasound, Dental, Optometrist, Physiotherapy, MCH services and pharmacy.
Our plan for 2021 onwards includes strengthening key strategically located centres within Dar es Salaam city such as Town, Masaki, Bunju, Tabata and Mbezi through family physicians and selected clinical programming linkage through Aga Khan Hospital Dar, enhancing advance services for corporate patient influx.
Our focus remains on quality improvement and monitoring tools for International quality standards through SAFECARE Healthcare. To-date we have 5 centres accredited with SAFECARE Standards i.e. Morogoro, Mbezi, Town, Masaki and Mwanza Medical Centre.
Head of Outreach Health Services
Aga Khan Hospital, Dar es Salaam
Ocean Road, P.O. Box 2289
Direct Line: +255 (0) 788 230 540
Office Extension: 6041, 6042, 6085
Email: Send a message