A specialist in hip and knee surgery from Queen Elizabeth Hospital in the UK, Prof Mamoun Abdel Gadir, has arrived in Dar es Salaam for a five-day medical camp for Tanzanians.

The doctor in collaboration with local experts will perform the surgery at the camp that will be held at the Muhimbili Mloganzila hospital starting today Monday.

He arrived yesterday at Julius Nyerere International Airport where he was received by Global Medicare staff who have coordinated the camp in collaboration with Muhimbili Mloganzila.

 Speaking during the reception, the General Manager of Global Medicare, Daniel Lazaro, said they are happy to see that he has arrived safely in Tanzania and that his arrival will be of great benefit to Tanzanians with hip and knee problems.

"We are happy to see that you have arrived safely and we expect that many Tanzanians will benefit from your attendance at this five-day camp that will start at the Muhimbili Mloganzila hospital on Monday," he said

Prof Gadir thanked the Tanzanian government and Global Medicare for well coordinating his trip to Tanzania and promised to provide better services to the patients who will appear at the camp.

"I hope we will cooperate very well with my fellow local experts at this five-day camp and with this service, I hope we will increase the yeast of cooperation between our countries and we will exchange the experience of doing this type of surgery for our experts," he said.

The Assistant Director of Surgical Services at the Mloganzila Hospital, Goodlove Mfuko, said that all preparations have been completed and they will collaborate with Dr Gadir at the camp.

"This specialist will collaborate with expert doctors who are specialists in orthopedics and accidents here, Mloganzila. This will be the second time we have provided this kind of service because the first time, we performed hip and knee replacement surgery for 170 patients with great success," he said.

"So at this camp, which is the second one, we will collaborate with this doctor from the UK to gain experience so that we can further improve our services here at Muhimbili Mloganzila," he said

He advised people with hip and knee problems to go to Mloganzila to get the UK specialist's hip and knee replacement service.

Aron Mwamyanda who underwent knee surgery at the last camp in Mloganzila said he suffered from knee pain for three years and attended many hospitals without success.

"I went to traditional healers but was unsuccessful, but when one of my children heard that there are knee and hip specialists here at  Mloganzila, he brought me. I came and they diagnose  me  and they said my condition is bad I need surgery," he said

"After the surgery, my situation has become completely different because I can do many things that I was not able to do before and I expect I will return to my normal state," he said.