Nursing Volunteer Opportunities in Arusha, Tanzania

We invite nursing students, nurses, and medical practitioners to this volunteer program. Placements are in hospitals and medical centers in Arusha and involve assisting doctors in providing medical services. Like many developing countries, Tanzania is also faced with a lot of challenges in the fields of health care and medicine. Despite government efforts to provide the needs of nurses and improve their working conditions, facilities still lack: - Enough manpower to provide adequate services, with an alarming low ratio of nurses to Tanzanians in need of medical care - Proper equipment to provide required services - Skilled nurses - Institutions to train qualified nurses As a volunteer (also open to interns), you will: - Taking vital signs - Turning or repositioning bedridden ...