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The Ministry of Health is a government ministry of Tanzania. Its central offices are located in Dodoma. Its mission is to "facilitate the provision of basic health services that are good, quality, equitable, accessible, affordable, sustainable[,] and gender-sensitive". [1]
Travel restrictions reduced the spread of the virus, but because they were first implemented after community spread had established in several countries in distant parts of the world—they produced only a modest reduction in the total number of people infected. Travel restrictions may be most important at the start and end of the pandemic. [3]
On 10 July, Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima revealed that there had been 408 new cases of COVID-19, 284 of whom were on ventilators. [113] On 14 July, Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima announced an agreement reached with COVAX to supply 300,000 vaccine doses. She also undertook to resume publication of twice-monthly COVID-19 statistics. [114]
A governmentspokesman told Reuters on Feb.12 that Tanzania had "controlled"the outbreak, but it stopped reporting new coronavirusinfections and deaths in May last year. UPDATE 2-WHO says still has ...
On 16 March, the government banned public officials from travelling abroad, and urged citizens to avoid foreign travel. [183] [184] Quarantine measures were put in place for all visitors arriving from countries with more than 50 cases. [183] Public gatherings of more than 100 people were also banned. [183]
[17] [18] The Tanzanian ministry of health mandates a transit time of more than 12 hours or a disembarkment from the immediate airport area from the above mentioned countries during transit as a possible health threat and requires travelers in such situations to possess Yellow Fever Certificates.
Health insurance coverage is still low in Tanzania. As of 2019, 32% of Tanzanians had health insurance coverage, of which 8% have subscribed to NHIF, 23% are members of Community Health Fund (CHF), and 1% are members of private health insurance companies. [22] Beneficiaries of NHIF includes the contributing members, spouse and up to four ...
Bank of Tanzania; Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) Parastatal Sector Reform Commission; Public Service Pensions Fund (PSPF) National Social Security Fund (NSSF) Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA)