Engineering and Maintenance Department

The major responsibility of the department is to oversee the provision of quality maintenance of hospital equipment, infrastructures, buildings, machinery, and plant, to manage technical contracts in the hospital. The department has four sections namely; electrical engineering, mechanical and Transport engineering, civil engineering, and Biomedical engineering.

Below are some of the activities performed by these sections:-

1. Installation and Repair of all medical equipment;
2. Electrical installations including cold rooms, air conditioners;
3. Repair of boilers, incinerators, water pumps, generators ;
4. Installation and repair of autoclave machine;
5. Installation and Repair of heavy duty washing machines;
6. Perform civil work including painting , Carpentry works, Welding works and fabrications;
7. Prepare and perform planned preventive maintenance for hospital plant and equipment;
8. Conduct Eastern Zonal Hospitals maintenance activities which cover Dar-es-salaam, Pwani, Morogoro, Dodoma, and Tanga Regions.