St. Joseph Hospital, Peramiho
A Brief History, Part I
Hospital Part II Leprosarium St. Anna Health Center
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.
