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Please support Tanzanian Healthcare professionals and volunteers care for COVID-19 patients across Tanzania

Please help the Tanzanian Development Trust (TDT) provide doctors and other healthcare workers in Tanzania with protective equipment and basic tools to help them fight COVID19. Tanzania has an extremely unprepared health system, with only 0.4 doctors per 10,000 population (compared to 28 for the UK), and only 1.3 ICU beds per million population.

TDT's much valued local reps and all the people they have funded over the last 43 years rely on small, very underfunded, overcrowded district hospitals that cannot cope with demand in normal times, let alone an influx of COVID-19 patients. High rates of HIV and malnutrition also make people particularly vulnerable.

TDT have so far sent over £21,000 to 42 different hospitals and health centres across Tanzania, to enable them to buy locally made reusable masks, gowns and aprons for their front line health workers. Many
of these centres had no protective equipment, even those with confirmed COVID-19 cases, so they are extremely grateful for these which they will be able to use long term. They have been working
very closely with Tuheda, Tanzanian Diaspora Health workers (https://www.tuheda.com/), who have advised them which type of mask to recommend, and they have created a Swahili version of the instructions which we have circulated widely. With Tuheda they have set up a WhatsApp group to disseminate much needed COVID-19 training and materials, answer questions and give advice. They have also managed to link hospitals with suppliers of 3D printed plastic visors. As the numbers of people infected continues to rise, TDT are receiving more applications than they can fund.

Please support the Tanzania Development Trust today and help protect
Tanzanian doctors so they can continue to treat vulnerable communities in Tanzania.