Hospitali ya Ocean Road
The Ocean Road Hospital ( Kiswahili Hospitali ya Ocean Road ) is a hospital in Dar es Salaam . It was opened on October 1, 1897 as the Imperial Government Hospital ( Kaiserliches Gouvernements-Krankenhaus ) in the colony of German East Africa . Today it is the only tumor clinic in Tanzania .
history
The hospital was established to provide medical care to the growing number of Europeans in East Africa. Since the existing supply from mission stations was unsatisfactory, a government hospital was built, and the German Kaiser Wilhelm II helped finance it with 20,000 gold marks from his private box. After the original plans to build such a hospital on Zanzibar or in Bagamoyo , Dar es Salaam was chosen as a location because of its growing importance and better transport connections.
In colonial times, doctors were usually medical officers. From the establishment until 1901, the clinic was managed by Alexander Becker, head physician of the colony since 1891, followed by Werner Steuber (1901–1905) and Hugo Meixner .
The hospital was intended for Europeans. The Sewa Hadji Hospital , which opened in early 1897 with donations from the Indian merchant Sewa Hadji , was intended for the local population ; however, the number of patients in this hospital far exceeded the number of patients.
A number of prominent German doctors and scientists have worked and researched at the hospital, above all Robert Koch , who was repeatedly a guest at the hospital on his research trips. From July 1897 to May 1898 he conducted research in the hospital laboratory mainly on malaria , but also on Surra and Texas fever , two animal diseases . From January 1905 he spent several months researching African sleeping sickness and east coast fever . Gustav Giemsa was the government pharmacist in Dar es Salaam, and Robert Kudicke was the first pathologist at the hospital from 1908. Both later became professors in Germany.
In 1916 Dar es Salaam was conquered by the British, who took over the hospital and continued it in the Mandate Tanganyika after the First World War . With independence in 1962, the hospital was transferred to the Republic of Tanganyika, and in 1964 to the Republic of Tanzania.
The hospital has been working with the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg since 1988 .
In June 1996, the Ocean Road Hospital was renamed the Ocean Road Cancer Institute (ORCI) and subordinated to the Ministry of Health. The institute has been a member of the Union internationale contre le cancer (UICC) since 2008 .
building
The eye-catching building in the Arabic style was erected in a park directly on the Indian Ocean according to plans by the government master builder August Wißkow . Opened in 1897 with only one wing, the second wing, which had been planned from the beginning, was completed in 1900. In addition to the main building, there was a separate fever barrack for malaria sufferers and a number of farm buildings. The building is dominated by two water towers, which were designed as octagonal domes with a star. For the purpose of natural air conditioning, hospital rooms were oriented towards the lake; Rooms affected by direct sunlight were protected by verandas.
A third wing was added under British administration 50 years after it opened. In the 1990s the building was renovated with funds from the Federal Republic of Germany.
- Pictures of the hospital from 1906
Fever barrack.
Sickroom
veranda
literature
- Heinz Schneppen: The beginnings of the Ocean Road Hospital in Dar es Salaam: from a mission hospital to a government hospital . In: Sudhoff's archive . tape 84 , no. 1 , 2000, pp. 63-88 , PMID 11068515 , JSTOR : 20777738 .
Web links
- Ocean Road Cancer Institute website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Membership in the UICC , accessed on February 16, 2013
Coordinates: 6 ° 48 ′ 38.9 ″ S , 39 ° 17 ′ 47 ″ E