Our history
St. Gaspar Hospital has been instituted, managed and sponsored by the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood and built in Tanzania, in the region of Singida, in Itigi rural area.
After realizing the wide need of an appropriate health care service dedicated to the people of the area, the hospital was inaugurated in 1989. Today it is a regional point of reference for it continues to «cure, educate, consolate», according to its motto.
A wide number of doctors, specialists, technical experts and friends use their skills in helping to carry out our mission. They have helped the hospital in more than 30 years. Itigi is at the centre of Tanzania and St. Gaspar Hospital provides the core of health in this area.
The original hospital lay out of the main buildings was cross shaped,but now it is more different than in the past. Many buildings have been added around the original structure. The hospital is one of the biggest works of Missionaries of the Precious Blood and their flagship.
Because of the decades-long action of our Hospital, dignity and hope has been conveyed in the vicinity. The rural township has now acces to electricity and safe drinking water and domiciliary services. Thisis a true example of instlling hope for the future of Tanzania.
A C.PP.S. work
The hospital is built, managed and sponsored by the Congregation of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood.
Since 1987
The mission began with the creation of a dispensary which represented the beginnings of the present hospital.
healthcare example
The hospital is a true example of hope for all the people in the area.
The beginning
C.PP.S missionaries arrived in the Singida’s area, thanks to the invitation of the local bishop. The missionaries decided to open a little dispensary to assist the sick of the area in 1987.
The C.PP.S. Congregation
The congregation of Missionaries of the Precious Blood is a Society of Apostolic life of the Catholic Church composed by secular priests and brothers who live in community. They are in Tanzania since the 1966.
The hospital
The Hospital, built around the former dispensary, has become in a short time a referral facility for the Singida’s area and from other parts of Tanzania. It was opened officially in 1989.
address
St. Gaspar Referral Hospital
P.O. 12 – Itigi (Singida)
write to us
info@stgasparhospital.org
call us
(+255) 262540193
(+255) 755454040