Healthcare Internship in Tanzania - Dar es Salaam Reviews

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Hear from students who completed a healthcare internship in Tanzania - Dar es Salaam with Work the World. Browse honest accounts and find out what life on internship there is really like before you apply.

Paula Charnley

University of Brighton 2011
Midwifery, Tanzania - Dar es Salaam

I quickly learnt that I could be of use just by holding someone's hand or offering a few comforting words in Swahili

Rachel Rowland

University of Oxford 2011
Medical, Tanzania - Dar es Salaam

There was one paediatrics ward, which was split in two - contagious (diarrhoea) and non-contagious, mainly malaria and pneumonia.

Naomi Oliver

University of East Anglia (UEA) 2011
Medical, Tanzania - Dar es Salaam

Busy would be an understatement. Babies were being delivered every 5 to 10 minutes at peak

Joanna Sillince

Sheffield Hallam University 2011
Nursing, Tanzania - Dar es Salaam

I had the best time and am already planning another Work the World placement once I am qualified

Victoria Maxey

University of East Anglia 2011
Nursing, Tanzania - Dar es Salaam

I had the chance to monitor and examine women during labour and perform a large number of deliveries. I was also able to get involved when women needed interventions such as putting in catheters, cannulas and also performing artificial rupture of membranes, episiotomies and suturing post partum.