Intravenous (IV) Fluids Production:

Bugando Medical Centre I.V fluid production Unit is producing glass bottled Intravenous fluids at a capacity of 6000 bottles of 500mls and 250ml per month and 72,000 per year. This serves the hospital revenue of TZS 9,000,000/= per year compared to purchase from MSD. This amount doesn’t meet hospital demand of about 500,000 bottles per year. The unit produces special I.V fluids that are difficulty to source from MSD and local market.
These are special products from our unit: 3% Sodium chloride, 25% Dextrose injection, 50% Dextrose injection, Neonatal fluid injection, Magnesium sulphate injection, peritoneal dialysate fluid and Methylene blue solution.
The department is planning to establish new I.V production plant that will have high capacity of more than 1million bottles per year to fulfil hospital requirements and surplus for other hospitals in the Lake Zone and Tanzania at large. This will decrease the cost of purchasing I.V fluids and hence decrease the burden oftreatment to patients.