ELCT Health

Community-Centered

Approach

To improving the health of the entire community, addressing the social, environmental, and economic factors that impact well-being.

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Health care Facility

Patient-Centered Care

ELCT has 24 hospitals and 148 lower health facilities, which are located across the country, both on the Tanzanian mainland and Zanzibar.

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What Can We Do?

Building on two decades of compassionate, community-based healthcare.

Vision

The vision is a healthy society where individuals' physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual needs are balanced, leading to peaceful and joyful lives.

Mission

The department's mission is to glorify God by offering holistic, equitable, and sustainable quality healthcare in partnership with the community and stakeholders.

Goal

A community with good health contributing effectively to individual and national development and living a peaceful and joyful life.

Function

Coordination, facilitation and capacity building. It involves also facilitation for effective planning and implementation of health services and programs.

Partners in Health, Advocates for Life

"We stand as advocates for better health and improved quality of life in every community we serve."

Running Programs

On ELCT Health we have many Programs that we run,

Programme

Palliative care

Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, th...

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Programme

Clinic and Community-based Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (CCBSRHR) Program

CCBSRHR is among the programs within the ELCT Health and Diakonia Directorate. The program started as a reproductive health project in the late 1990s and later...

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Upcoming Events

Supportive Supervision and Mentorship

May 13, 2026

The ELCT Health and Diakonia Directorate is planning for supportive supervision and mentorship. The initiative aimed to strengthen...

Latest News

Palliative Care Certificates Earned

May 14, 2026

We've successfully completed our 3-Day Palliative Care Training for health professionals! Doctors, Clinicians, nurses, pharmacists, and social workers...