St. Joseph's Peramiho Hospital

Peramiho is the place found in tanzania at songea municipal, a place have an historical facts since it is said to be visited by the white people from european especially the missionaries white fathers included father Benedict and his fellows, they visited the place during the 18century they established various centres like mission church, seminaries, schools for providing social services to community, hospital. It is estimated that, peramiho mission was established on the year 1897 in which zhey built various building to begun to practice activities like to spread christian religion by tought words of God. The place was given by songea chief of a days pased known as chief mhalule and others. The word peramiho said to originated from the native language (kipera mio which mean in swahili word that yape macho yaone in english give eye to see).

1901  Arrival of the first four Missionary Benedictine Sisters. Among them, one nurse who, with the help of an assistant, soon started to visit and care for the sick in the village. They also look after the lepers in the nearby leper settlement Lundusi.

1909  The sisters return to Peramiho and make a new start. Patients are treated at Peramiho, in a simple clay hut. The sick in the surrounding area are visited in their homes.

1911  The government builds a leper settlement in Morogoro and entrusts the care of the lepers to the sisters.

1923  After having been expelled from the country in 1916, the sisters return again and resume their nursing work. The first "hospital" a clay hut with three rooms is built so that patients can be admitted and observed and cared for more easily. Indigenous staff and sisters are trained in health care. Dispensaries are erected at all new outstations in Ungoni and Umatengo. Doctors from the Songea district hospital offer advice and help.

1949  After the arrival of Sr. Dr. Tetwigis Sailer, OSB, a medical doctor, the Peramiho hospital is officially recognized. Other doctor sisters worked for some time in the Peramiho Mission Hospital, namely: Sr. Maria Salus Linde, Sr. Wernfried Walter, Sr. Birgitta Schnell.

1952  Sr. Tetwigis Sailer starts the Peramiho Nurses and Midwife's Training School.

In the course of the following years a spacious TB ward, operating theatre, pharmacy, laboratory, and X-Rays department are built.

1980-2000  These years see the erection of new buildings, expansion, renovation, increase in patient numbers, and improvement in health care methods initiated and guided by Brother Dr. Ansgar Stuefe, OSB. The hospital has a capacity of 420 beds. The Nurses' and midwives' Training School with 120 students offers a four-year course for training as laboratory attendants and has ten study places.

The Leprosarium at Morogoro is still under the care of the sisters and is associated with Peramiho Hospital. Due to improved medical treatment and better medicines many lepers can be healed, and the number of new leprosy cases decreased. However, due to Aids, the children's home associated with the leprosarium becomes home for more than 150 orphans starting with toddlers and caring for them through their school years.

Dr. Ansgar Stuefe, OSB, is entrusted to another field of responsibility in his religious congregation of Missionary Benedictine Fathers, and leaves Peramiho.
The direct responsibilities of leadership in the hospital are given to Dr. Lemuel Rugumyamheto (Deputy Medical Director) and Dr. Venance Mushi (Doctor in Charge).

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