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CCBRT disability hospital

The disability hospital provides a wide range of affordable curative services to people with visual and physical impairments. It consists of:

CCBRT's Disability Hospital provides voluntary counselling and testing (VCT) for HIV/Aids patients.

CCBRT eye department

Around 75% of people with eye problems in Africa could see again if they were to receive timely quality medical attention and care. CCBRT provides consultations, surgery, follow up, low vision training and low vision devices. CCBRT's Eye Department is a sub-speciality training centre for ophthalmology in Sub-Saharan Africa and develops capacities of other medical institutions to provide quality eye services. more


CCBRT rehabilitation department

CCBRT Disability Hospital is one of the few centres in Tanzania where children with disabilities receive comprehensive rehabilitative services including surgery, tailor made orthopaedic appliances, mobility and positioning devices as well as physiotherapy and occupational therapy.
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what´s happening


Monday, 2012-02-06
(left to right) Erwin Telemans (CEO, CCBRT); Mwamvita Makamba (Chief Officer of Marketing and Corporate Affairs, Vodacom Tanzania); Stella Nzyemba (former fistula patient at CCBRT) Vodacom Tanzania launches public campaign to raise one billion Tanzanian shillings to fight fistula

Friday, 2012-01-27
CCBRT’s CEO Erwin Telemans addressing members of the conference in Dar es Salaam. CCBRT/CBM HIV/AIDS project reaches conclusion

Thursday, 2012-01-12
CCBRT's deputy CEO Ms Haika Mawalla welcomes Norwegian minister Anne Grete Strom Erichsen. The Norwegian Minister of Health Anne Grete Strom Erichsen visited CCBRT to witness the work on maternal and newborn health

personal stories

Thursday, 2010-06-03 09:20

When Ken was born in hospital in the south of Tanzania, nobody noticed that something was wrong....

changing lives

Little Thomas was born with clubfeet. Thanks to early intervention he will now be able to walk normally like other children. To help more children like Thomas, kindly donate here.

 

CCBRT statistics In November we:
  • carried out 22 fistula surgeries
  • performed 703 eye surgeries 
  • performed 43 cleft lip surgeries
  • saw 341 patients for physiotherapy
  • manufactured 149 new devices for people with disabilities