Alafia Tinga
Alafia Tinga or “Village of Good Health” is BMC’s tuberculosis treatment village. Located just south of the hospital, it consists of 35 housing units for TB patients and their caretakers to live in.
Patients are required to live in Alafia Tinga for the entire duration of their treatment. Patients used to stay for 9 months but the hospital now has a shortened protocol that can be completed in a 6 month timeframe.
Alafia Tinga can house about 66 patients at a time and it is usually filled to capacity. Patients on the “intensive phase” (first 2 months of treatment) are separated from those in the “continuation phase” (the last 4 months).
Learn about the history of Alafia Tinga.
