Selian Lutheran Hospital

Selian Lutheran Hospital is a semi-urban 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 and ten beds into a 120 bed, full-service hospital offering outpatient and inpatient services including medicine, pediatric, general and specialty surgical, obstetric, maternal and child health, hospice and orphan care. Selian Lutheran Hospital serves an immediate catchment area consisting mainly of a government ward with a population of approximately 200,000 people. The hospital and its clinic, the Arusha Town Clinic, also serve as the main referral resources for the entire urban area of Arusha, a catchment area of over a million people.