Children are benefiting from airline group's charity but applause is muted
A modern building, the Vijibweni hospital stands out in one of the poorer parts of the Tanzanian capital. Its clean and freshly whitewashed rooms also compare favourably with some of the more basic health facilities in the Temeke district, where in one case mothers and newborn babies are often four to a bed. However, Dr Abdi Salim, chief medical officer at the clinic, says more is needed if this modestly sized complex is to offer the best care possible to a catchment area with a population that is measured in the hundreds of thousands.
The list is short: an ambulance to transport outpatients down the dusty - and in winter impassable - access road and an adult operating theatre. Standing under an awning in the clinic car park, Salim is presenting to an audience of care workers, local officials and an unlikely guest: Willie Walsh, the chief executive of British Airways. Walsh's motives for the visit, in the middle of a dire aviation industry downturn, could contain the answer to Salim's concerns.
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