1901

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

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.

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

After having been expelled 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 outstation in Ungoni and Umatengo. Doctors from the Songea district hospital offer advice and help.

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.

Sr. Tetwigis Sailer starts the Peramiho Nurses and Midwife's Training School.
In the course of the following years a spacious TB word, operating theatre, pharmacy, laboratory, and X-Rays department are built.

These years see the erection of new buildings, expansion, renovation, Increasing in patient numbers, improvement in methods of treatment 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 places offers a four - years 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 can be healed. And the number of new leprosy cases decreased. How ever, due to Aids, the children's home associated with the leprosarium is home for more than 120 orphans stating with toddlers and caring for them through their school years.

Dr. Ansgar Stuefe OSB has been entrusted another field of responsibility in his religious congregation of missionary Benedictine fathers, by his superiors and left Peramiho.
The direct responsibilities of leadership were given to
Dr. Lemuel Rugumyamheto (Deputy Medical Director) and
Dr. Venance Mushi (Doctor in Charge).