Background
The Tanzania Training Centre for Orthopaedic Technologists (TATCOT)
was founded in Moshi with the material, financial and human resource
support of the governments of Tanzania and the Federal Republic of
German in June 1981. TATCOT is a supra-regional training centre providing
courses in the field of orthopaedic technology in Africa and enrols
students from all English speaking African countries as well as other
interested countries.
Ministry of
Health
TATCOT is organised under the Directorate of Human
Resource Development of the Tanzanian Ministry of Health, Dar es Salaam.
It is situated in Moshi on the premises of Kilimanjaro Christian Medical
Centre (KCMC), which is an institution of the Good Samaritan Foundation
of the Evangelic Lutheran Church of Tanzania.
Tumaini
University
In 1999 TATCOT took the initiative to introduce a BSc Degree Course
in Prosthetics and Orthotics and was then incorporated as the Department
of Prosthetics and Orthotics of the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine
in Kilimanjaro Christian Medical College (KCM-College) which is one
of the constituent colleges of Tumaini University.