Hospitals

Map of Highland Hope Hospitals

Consolata Hospital Ikonda

Owned by Consolata Missions Society and operating under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Njombe, the Consolata Hospital in Ikonda (Makete District) has an overall capacity of 202 beds and offers outpatient, pediatric, maternity, general surgical, laboratory and radiological services.

The hospital is well-known for its school for laboratory technicians. The HIV-AIDS Care and Treatment Centre at Consolata started operation in 2004.

Tanwat Company Hospital (Njombe)

The Tanwat (Tanganyka Wattle Company Tanzania) Company Hospital is a 40-bed clinic and hospital in Njombe that provides services to Tanwat workers and their families as well as to residents of the workers’ 17 home villages.

Tanwat Company Hospital has been actively developing HIV-AIDS education and care programming since 1996 and has invested in specialized professional training and peer education programs that have benefited all three Highlands Hope hospitals and clinics. It began dispensing antiretrovirals in April 2006.

PIUMA HIV Counselling and Testing Clinic (Bulongwa)

The PIUMA HIV Counselling and Testing Clinic is an independent, community-based clinic in the Bulongwa area of Makete District with leadership drawn primarily from local people living with HIV-AIDS.

AIDS is an enormous problem in the area with prevalence rates that are said to be the highest in Tanzania. A PIUMA-supported clinic first opened in 2004 at a local hospital with the first patients receiving antiretrovirals in the spring of 2005. PIUMA opened its own testing clinic in July 2007.