The Municipal provides both curative and preventive health services. Other specific health services the council endeavors to improve include provision of maternal and child healthcare, care and counseling for people living with HIV/AIDS, treatment for sexually transmitted diseases (STI), conducting school health programme, control and monitoring food and drugs sold to consumers in Sumbawanga Municipality.
The Municipality has 36 health facilities which include 1 Designated Municipal Hospital (DMH), Regional hospital, 3 health centers, and 31 Dispensaries. The number of people served by each facility is enormous. For example, a health center serves 84,370 and a dispensary records an attendance of more than 6,750.
In this era of globalization where medical pluralism does generally clusters patients based on their income elasticity to acquire health service makes health service provision an ideal investment. The recommended investments includes but not limited to pharmacies and provision of more specialized health services.
Health Infratructures in Sumbawanga Municipality June 2014
SN
Health Facility
OWNERSHIP
Total
Government
Religion
Parastatals
Private
1
Hospital
1
1
0
0
2
2
Health Centre
1
2
0
0
3
3
Dispensary
19
2
3
6
31
Grand Total
23
5
3
6
37
Like many local government Authorities (LGAs), Sumbawanga Municipal council also is facing a daunting challenge that of shortage of health staff especially medical practitioners.
