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.

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