In the best-equipped laboratory in Amana hospital, one of the largest in Tanzania, Focus Mbawala still diagnoses malaria with a simple microscope, despite the cutting-edge equipment that surrounds him.
A donated computer, freezer and a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) machine for amplifying DNA all remain untouched since the Chinese-funded malaria centre opened in November 2010.
“We were given very little instruction on how to operate them,” says Mr Mbawala, who runs the malaria centre in the hospital in the Ilala district of Dar es Salaam. In 2009, he was given a five-day crash course led by doctors from China, but it was hardly useful as their English was very limited.
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