In the theatre two new sterilisers were installed (2004)

1995

• Christine and Wilfried Schennach visit Ifakara for the first time
• Delivery of suture material and operation instruments
• Assistance in theatre and wards
• Improvement of the hygienic situation

1996

• Co-financing of a house for hospital employees
• Improvement of the Prosthesis Workshop
• Equipment for Premature Babies’ Ward

1999

• 1999 Weaving of linens

2000 - 2002

• Training of doctors and nurses from Ifakara at St. Vinzenz Hospital in Zams

2001

• Installation of an Observation Ward
• Delivery of operation lamps

2002

• 34 patient beds with mattresses and coatings
• operation clothes, teaching material for nursing school
• 12 Anti Decubitus mattresses for ICU

2003

• 33 patient beds with mattresses and coatings
• 1 groundwater pump
• 2 big laundry machines
• 1 photocopier
• Weaving of linens
• Operating tables, suction machines

2004

• 1 colonoscope, 1 gastroscope
• 37 patient beds with mattresses and coatings
• Blood pressure meters
• 2 big sterilizers for the theatre from Belimed Comp. with a water treatment plant

2005

• Training of 3 doctors to be specialists for Surgery, Internal Medicine and Paediatrics (until 2007)
• Training of an occupational therapist (until 2008)
• 1 year check of the two sterilizers by Belimed Comp.
• Renovation of paediatric wards Blood sugar meters with test stripes Hospital clothing and bales of cloth 3 sewing machines

2006

• Operation linen and -clothes
• Blood sugar meters with test stripes
• 1 emergency generator (380 KVA)
• Pump for the water treatment plant
• Tools for the workshop
• 1 big laundry machine

2007

• Training of 1 doctor to become a specialist in Orthopaedics and Traumatology (till 2009)
• 15 patient beds, 100 mattresses and coatings
• Weaving of 100 linens
• 2 Electrocardiographs
• 2 Cardiotocographs
• 6 Oxygen Concentrators
• 2 mobile X-ray machines (C-arms)
• 9 computers with accessories
• Blood pressure meters

The new haematology device

• 1 Sysmex Haematology device for the laboratory
• 1 Photocopier
• 100 mosquito nets
• X-ray machine for Dental Unit
• 1 palette of operating- and examination gloves
• Insulin and analgesics

2008

• Training of 1 doctor to be a Assistant Medical Officer (duration of training: 1 year)
• 1 Automatic processor
• 10 X-ray cassettes
• Installation of an X-ray image intensifier (C-arm)

Fundi Kassim installs the C-arm

• Maintenance of the emergency generator
• 1 Biochemistry device for the laboratory (Vitros)
• Biochemistry reagents
• 1 Precision scales for the laboratory
• Air condition for biochemistry laboratory
• 1 Refrigerator and freezer for storing the reagents
• 2 stopwatches for the laboratory
• 1 Hematokrit centrifuge for paediatric department
• Antibiotics and painkillers (donation of Marien-pharmacy Schwaz)
• 2 Labelling devices (Brother)
• Inventory of the whole hospital
• Renovation of the rooms of the X-ray department
• and of a staff house
• 2 diathermy units
• 2 dermatomes with accessory
• 1 mesh device with accessory
• 1 bone drilling machine with charger and storage batteries
• Tools for the workshop
• 500 oxygen masks with tubes
• 1 ophthalmoscope
• 54 impregnated mosquito nets

2009 

• Overhaul of both big sterilizers in the theatre
• Reparation work in the X-ray department
• Training of two employees of the hospital to be a cook and a lorry driver respectively
• Installation of an Occupational Therapy by Isabelle Hofstetter
• Assistance by the reopening of the prosthesis workshop
• Several adjustments (lorry, X-ray C-arm etc.)
• Overhaul of the emergency generator
• Air condition in the pharmacy and X-ray department
• Renovation of the X-ray room and installation of radiation protection measures
• Purchase and installation of a new X-ray machine Siemens "Mulitix-Swing"

2010 

• 1 modern Cystoskop
• Solar-plant to heat the water in the laundry and to cool the mortuary
• 1 borehole for a new deep well (100m)
• Water - bowser for waste water
• 3 computers, 2 printer, 1 scanner
• New tools for the workshop
• 670 sheets, coating for blankets, clothes for nurses
• 3 sewing machines
• Drugs and dressings
• 3500 X-ray films
• 1 suction machine
• 1 Anaesthesia device (Sulla)
• Furniture for theatre

2011 

• 1 Gastroskop und 1 Coloskop with accessories
• 1 Urethrotoma of Fa. Storz Comp. Germany
• Flushing of 4 wells
• 2 Sulla Anaesthersia divices
• 3 Succion machines
• 1 X-ray processor
• 2 Identification devices for X-ray pictures
• 28 Computer2 for the students of the University
• Printer, fax devisce and scanner for Medical Director Office
• Furniture for the laboratory of the University
• 1500 trousers of different size
• Clothes for children
• necessary items for school children
• 1 new operation bed
• 211 Goretex covers for mattresses
• 100 mattresses
• storage batteries for Op. drilling machine
• Lamps für endoscopy and light source
• 1 Beamer (LCD Projektor) for meetings
• Repair of a pump for a deep well
• Repair of 2 laundry machines
• Education of a anaesthesia nurse
• Education of a specialist for Anaesthesia
• Education of a specialist for Surgery and Internal Medicine
• Education of a specialist for general medicine
• Start of education of a specialist for Urology

2012 

• 2 Water-reservoirs à 50.000 liter
• 3 Pumps for already existing 100m wells
• Panelhouse for regulation of the pumps
• Start of education of a specialist for Orthopaedy and Traumatology
• Maintenance of the sterilizers, generator and solarplant
• Emergency generator for guesthouse and students´ hostel.
• Big washing machine for hospital-laundry
• 40 double buckets system for cleaning the floors
• Cooperation in the theatre, wards, X-ray and outpatient department
• Initiation of cooperation between SFUCHAS and Med. University Innsbruck/Tyrol
• Further sponsoring of training of 4 doctors to become specialists
• Co-financing of hospital costs for poor patients