We advise you to seek professional medical advice in any medical matter.

Medical Facilities
Tanzania is a poor and underdeveloped nation. Pemba is one of the poorest corners of Tanzania . Tanzania is heavily reliant on foreign aid. Approximately 48% (at time of writing) of Tanzania ’s GDP is aid. Subsequently our local medical facilities are sadly not up to international standards. The nearest hospitals that have international surgical and research standards are in Nairobi 700 kilometres away. Air evacuation is available in the daytime, but Chake Chake Airport has no runway lights and thus night time evacuations are not possible. (This process is excellent, but horrendously expensive; we strongly recommend Travel health insurance.)

Having said all of that, Chake Chake does have a reasonable hospital with good clean wards. We have visiting doctors from Swedish Rotary, UN doctors on detachment and the Ivo di Carneri Health Foundation. In emergency we can usually find one of these honourable people to assist.

In most cases, evacuation is done by insurance companies to your home country with a stabilizing stop in Dar es Salaam . Dar es Salaam has some very good hospitals that are very reasonably priced.

Dive Medical Facilities