Departments

The information below comes from the Official Haydom Lutheran Hospital website (www.haydom.com).

The hospital consists of several clinical departments. Here is information about some of them. For further and more up to date details about each department click here.

Reception
When patients arrive at Haydom, they either go to the reception or to the OPD. The most serious cases from the OPD are also sent to the reception. In the reception the patients are given a medical examination before they are admitted and transferred to the specific clinical departments.

Surgical Department
The surgical department is divided between Surgical 1 (general ward) and Surgical 2. All patients with fractures are admitted to Surgical 2 for pre- and post-operative care. Other patients in need of surgery are admitted to the general ward. Trauma and cancer patients are also admitted here.

Paediatric Department
The paediatric department of HLH is called Lena Ward, this is where the children are admitted.

HIV/Aids Clinic
Patients are not admitted to the HIV/Aids clinic, they come here to get the diagnosis, consultation, observation, registration and free medicine. If the patients are very sick, they are admitted to another ward for treatment. The clinic also arranges large informational meetings to increase the knowledge about HIV and Aids.

Diabetes Clinic
Patients with symptoms of diabetes go to the Diabetes Clinic to get the final diagnosis. Here they consultation, treatment and medication for both type 1 and type 2.

Maternity and Gynecology
Gynaecological treatment and all treatment of pregnant women; labour, premature, ante-natal and post-natal.

Dental Clinic
When patients with teeth problems come to the OPD or another ward, they are given an appointment at the dental clinic. Here they get an examination and x-ray and medication if necessary.

Physiotherapy
The physiotherapy department treats patients upon requests from doctors at the different wards. They help patients from all departments. The patients either come to the physiotherapy department, or the staff members from the physiotherapy department visit the patients at the ward where they are admitted. Because this is one of few physiotherapy departments in a very large area, patients also come to the department from other hospitals. The physiotherapists help patients with gymnastics, rehabilitation, breathing exercises, preventing muscle contractures and starting to move again after lying still for a long time.

Internal Medicine
Medical cases without need of surgery are admitted to the Old Ward for treatment. This is one of the biggest wards of the hospital.

Outreach
The outreach department goes out of the hospital and sets up small clinics. They go to about 27 different locations. The outreach department of Haydom covers a very large area. Some of the locations are outside of the Manyara region and have to be reached by plane. On the outreaches children are weighed, registered, vaccinated and given vitamins. The pregnant women are registered and examined. The clinic also offers free HIV tests and educate people in health and more.

Out Patient Department (OPD)
Outpatients from Haydom village and the area around the hospital come to the OPD to be examined, receive medicine and treatment. The most serious cases are referred to the reception for further treatment at the hospital. The eye clinic, dental clinic and physiotherapy are also parts of the OPD.

Psychiatry
The psychiatry department treats both inpatients and outpatients. The department is divided into three: treatment of outpatients, treatment of inpatients (from the other wards) and Amani Ward were patients suffering from serious substance abuse are admitted for detox and rehabilitation.