The doctor-in-charge of the Sengerema designated district hospital, Sister Dr. Marie Jose, speaks at the launch of the "Treat ...
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The
doctor-in-charge of the Sengerema designated district hospital, Sister Dr.
Marie Jose, speaks at the launch of the "Treat & Train" programme
in Sengerema district, Mwanza region, recently. African Barrick Gold (ABG) has
donated $130,000 to expand access to healthcare in the Lake Zone regions of
Tanzania. |
ABG
has thus donated US$130,000 (approximately 200 million Tanzanian shillings),
through the ABG Maendeleo Fund, to the training programme developed by BMC,
CUHAS and the Touch Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to
improving access to quality, basic healthcare and training healthcare workers
in sub-Saharan Africa.
“ABG
is pleased to work with CUHAS, BMC and the Touch Foundation to support the
training of medical students and to improve access to medical care in the Lake
Zone,” said Deo Mwanyika, Vice President Corporate Affairs
The
Treat & Train programme, an innovative and cost-effective care and
treatment programme, brings paediatric, surgery, internal medicine and
obstetrics/gynecology specialists to help train students and to treat patients
in the Lake Zone, thereby increasing access to medical care in rural areas.
Senior Vice President to Touch Dr. Steve Justus notes, “the Treat &
Train program will also have the added benefit of helping doctors and
specialists feel part of an integrated system and improve referrals throughout
the Lake Zone, thereby increasing retention of healthcare workers in the Lake
Zone.”
In
collaboration with public and private partners, the Touch Foundation has been
working with BMC and CUHAS since 2004 to train hundreds of new healthcare
workers, including urgently-needed doctors, nurses and laboratory technicians.
ABG’s
donation benefits medical students and thousands of patients in the Lake Zone
regions, who usually have to travel for long distances to access medical
services.
The
programme works by pooling and rotating cross-disciplinary, highly trained
clinical teams to rural facilities throughout western Tanzania.
The
innovative system, which also supports rotations of assistant medical officer
students and medical students from BMC and CUHAS, respectively, and overseen by
posted specialists and rotating CUHAS faculty, gives rural patients increased
access to skilled health workers.
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The
doctor-in-charge of the Sengerema designated district hospital, Sister Dr.
Marie Jose, speaks at the launch of the "Treat & Train" programme
in Sengerema district, Mwanza region, recently. African Barrick Gold (ABG) has
donated $130,000 to expand access to healthcare in the Lake Zone regions of
Tanzania. |
ABG
is Tanzania’s largest gold producer and one of the five largest gold producers
in Africa. We have four producing mines, all located in northwest Tanzania, and
several exploration projects at various stages of development. We have a
high-quality asset base, solid growth opportunities and a clear strategy.
The
key pillars to our strategy are:
§ driving operating efficiencies to optimise
production from our existing asset base;
§ growing through near mine expansion and
development of advanced-stage projects; and
§
organic greenfield growth and acquisitions in Africa.
Maintaining
our licence to operate through acting responsibly in relation to our people,
the environment and the communities in which we operate is central to achieving
our objectives.
ABG is a UK public company with its headquarters in
London. We are listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange under the
symbol ABG and have a secondary listing on the Dar es Salaam Stock Exchange.
Historically and prior to our initial public offering (IPO), our operations
comprised the Tanzanian gold mining business of Barrick Gold Corporation
(Barrick), our majority shareholder. ABG reports in US dollars in accordance
with IFRS as adopted by the European Union.
About Touch Foundation
The Touch Foundation (www.touchfoundation.org) is a not-for-profit
organization dedicated to the strengthening of healthcare systems through
improving human resources for health and bringing vital healthcare services to
the people in Sub-Saharan Africa with the greatest unmet need
.Since 2004, the Touch Foundation has helped grow a
Tanzanian medical university, adjacent to the Bugando Medical Center in Mwanza,
from just 10 students in 2004 to over 590 M.D. students currently in training,
with a total of 1,300 current health care students across thirteen cadres. To
date, Touch is responsible for graduating 150 doctors and over 1,300 allied health
care professionals.
The Touch Foundation receives support from USAID,
McKinsey & Company, African Barrick Gold, and the Bristol Myers Squibb
Foundation along with many other businesses and private individuals.
For inquiries:
Nector Pendaeli Foya, PR & Communications
Manager
Phone: (+255 22) 216 4229, Email: nfoya@africanbarrickgold.com
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