The Selian Story

Selian Lutheran Hospital is a semi-urban church hospital of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Tanzania – Diocese in Arusha Region (ELCT-DAR). It is located near the village of Ngaramtoni within the Arumeru District of the Arusha Region. The health work of the hospital was begun in the 1950’s and has grown from a dispensary with a single building into a 100 bed, full service hospital offering outpatient, inpatient, surgical, obstetric, and Maternal and Child Health services.

Selian Lutheran Hospital serves an immediate catchment area consisting of a government ward with upwards to 200,000 people. The hospital also serves as the main referral hospital for the entire urban area of Arusha. As such, it serves a referral catchment area of over a million.

Selian Lutheran Hospital serves an area largely inhabited by people of the Maasai and Waarusha tribes. Most people in the area are small scale land holders who are subsistence farmers. Foodstuffs as well as coffee are the major crops being cultivated. The climate is temperate year round, rainfall is plentiful in the immediate catchment area of the hospital, and the elevation is nearly 1,500 meters.

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