DAR ES SALAAM, Feb. 14 -- TRAUMA and Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Benjamin Mkapa Hospital (BMH) has saved the lives of more than 2,000 people, who were admitted to the health facility while in critical condition since its establishment in 2018.
BMH Executive Director, Dr Alphonce Chandika, disclosed this yesterday, noting that the figure was equivalent to 70 per cent of about 3,000 people who had received treatment at the facility.
"If we had no such facility, we could have lost 70 per cent of the people who were received to the Trauma Unit, while in critical condition," said Dr Chandika during an official handover of the Trauma Unit at the hospital by the government of Israel.
Trauma Unit is a health facility for caring of patients suff...