Hamisi Kamungu
Dodoma Town
Summary
A highly skilled Medical Doctor and Public Health Specialist with experience of 10 years in practice with extensive expertise in surgery and medical activities supervision, capable of performing major and minor surgeries, including emergency and elective procedures. Demonstrates proficiency in emergency preparedness and response to outbreaks such as COVID-19, measles, and cholera, alongside mass casualty planning and implementation. Offers a strong background in Maternity,Pediatrics, neonatal care, emergency medicine, and clinical management. With more than 7 years of experience in humanitarian world as a medical doctor and manager in limited resources environment in different emergency and regular context. I possess Secondary and tertiary care hospital experience which also involved medical and surgical activities supervision at the hospital level as Medical and Surgery Activity manager and Acting Project Medical Referent (Medical Team leader). Not only that but offering strong analytical skills, effective communication, and compassionate approach to patient care. Knowledgeable about medical protocols and eager to contribute to collaborative health care environment. Ready to use and develop diagnostic abilities, patient interaction, and teamwork skills.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Medical Activity Manager
Medicines Sans Frontiers-Belgium
Mokha General Hospital,Mokha City ,Yemen(South)
07.2025 - 01.2026
- Led coordination of medical activities in Mocha general hospital to enhance a better quality of patient care and service delivery in maternity,neonatology and pediatrics units
- Participated in alternative medical round in different ward units(maternity,neonatology and pediatrics and ER) which involved discussion of the critically ill patients and bed side teaching.2
- Developed training modules for the medical team to improve operational efficiency and knowledge transfer with the help of Senior medical doctor,Pediatrician Expat,Gynecologist expat and Anesthetist Expat.
- Implemented monitoring systems for Regular Quality Assessment and Analysis for ensuring adherence to quality standards.
- Facilitated at least 2 mortality morbidity review meetings every month both in maternity and pediatric departments which also include root cause analysis and action plan.
- Conducted Rational Drug Prescription Analysis every 3 months included quarterly report which was shared back to the team and the mission.
- Facilitated the kick off of Antimicrobial Stewardship activities which included doing the initial assessment,ToR preparation,action plan for 2026 and creating AMS committee in collaboration with IPC committee.
- Fostered collaboration among cross-functional teams which was achieved by Continuous follow up of medical activities with collaboration with NAM, MWAM, IPC and Pharmacy manager.
- Managed budgets efficiently, optimizing allocation of human resources and reduced unnecessary referrals while maintaining high-quality medical care standards.
- Mentored junior Medical doctors, contributing to their professional growth and improved performance within the team.
- Facilitated Bed side training of incision and drainage of abscess, wound suturing and minor burn injury management.
- Introduced the team to the use of POCUS on improving the management and treatment of patients.
SURGERY DEPARTMENT MEDICAL DOCTOR
TABORA REGIONAL REFERRAL HOSPITAL
TABORA URBAN, TANZANIA
08.2024 - 06.2025
- To review all the new admissions including emergency surgical cases as a second on call
- To conduct major ward rounds every week as a surgical team.
- Preoperative Responsibilities such as
- Patient evaluation to determine the necessity of surgical intervention.
- To perform Diagnostic Testing and interpret diagnostic tests to inform surgical planning
- To perform Risk Assessment in order to evaluate and discuss potential surgical risks with patients, ensuring they are well-informed.
- To make sure Informed Consent is clearly explain surgical procedures and to obtain informed consent from patients or their families.
- Intraoperative Responsibilities such as
- Competent in Surgical procedure both major and minor such as exploratory laparotomy due to peritonitis, intestinal obstruction or visceral injuries, Appendicectomy, herniorrhaphy, open prostatectomy, Fasciotomy and Thoracotomy.
- Competent also in managing trauma patient performing resuscitation and necessary lifesaving surgical interventions such fracture stabilization and surgical toileting of dirty trauma wounds
- To make sure all the surgical procedures are executed with precision, adhering to established techniques and safety protocols.
- To provide Team Leadership by leading and coordinate the surgical team which also is involving Real-Time Decision Making in order to make critical decisions during surgery to address any complications or unexpected findings.
- Postoperative Responsibilities:
- To perform Patient Monitoring by oversee patient recovery, managing postoperative care such as pain management and wound care.
- To conduct Follow-Up Care by scheduling follow-up consultations to monitor healing and address any concerns through surgical OPD clinics
- Competent to manage Complication by identify and manage any postoperative complications, adjusting treatment plans as necessary.
EMERGENCY ROOM/OPD MEDICAL DOCTOR AND SUPERVISOR
PUBLIC GENERAL HOSPITAL
DODOMA CITY, TANZANIA
01.2024 - 07.2024
- I was responsible for the management of outbreak diseases such diarrheal diseases in the community and in the ER for those severe cases which needed emergency management.
- I was conducting community health assessments in risk environments and providing health education when it comes to food and water outbreak diseases in the OPD.
- Capable of conducting assessment and supervision of the Triage, OPD and inside the Emergency Room to have a smooth flow of patients and to make sure good quality of health care services are being maintained.
- To provide palliative care in outpatient settings ranging from assessment to development and implementation of care plans.
- In collaboration with the ED team, establish a triage system using ETAT and IITT ensure quality by training staff, and adapting and evaluating the system.
- To Establish and/or evaluate the Mass Casualty Incident Training with the medical team.
- To Provide and ensure that the best patient care is given through emergency case management, protocol implementation and ensuring compliance with medical ethics.
- To Manage and organize the ED through supervision and organization of all emergency activities and staff.
- To Maintain good communication and collaboration with other departments within and outside the hospital, including the referral system.
- To perform Data collection, analysis, monitoring and reporting to improve the quality of care
ACTING Project Medical Referent (Medical Team leader)
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES-OCG, KILO PROJECT
AL-QAEDA CITY, YEMEN
06.2023 - 09.2023
- Supervision of Continuous activities: such as
- Supervision of the Hospital Kitchen which provided the food for more than 200 people which included patients and care takers to make sure there is proper food procurement from the suppliers by doing pre assessment before awarding contracts.
- To make sure there is proper food preparation, distribution, and storage according to the food safety and hygiene protocols with collaboration with the Heard Nurse.
- To conduct health assessments to the host community around the hospital to identify risk factors and to provide health education by practicing health promotion.
- Medical morning hand-over and held weekly staff meetings to review project updates, discuss issues, and brainstorm solutions.
- Medical Sitrep: I was responsible to compile medical situation report of the project from the medical side which involved proper analysis of the data collected over the whole month for different medical departments. I did medical sitrep of the project for the 2 months.
- Organization and supervision of Monthly community HP session led by HP Supervisor in collaboration with Outreach Nurse Supervisor for the Primary health Care facilities.
- I was responsible for Specific Activities on the medical team side: such as
- POA discussion kick-off started in August and on the medical strategy for the kilo project for 2024-2026 was done and shared with the project coordinator.
- The international order preparation together with Project Pharmacy manager at the project level.
- To follow up with the pharmacy manager to prepare a list of critical items that might have shortage earlier before we receive them in the country in order to at least try to see how to manage or coordinate to support us by sending these items much earlier.
- To follow up now on updating the Medical Standard List and international order for short half-life shelf items.
- Follow up on external trainings for the surgeons and Anesthesiologists.
- Follow up on MCP Training and ABR Training for the Medical team.
- Setting up New Objectives; For the managers and supervisors such as Medical Activity Manager, Surgery Activity Manager, Heard Nurse, PMR support, Pharmacy manager, Lab supervisor HP supervisor, NTsOutreach supervisor and Data supervisor.
SURGERY ACTIVITY MANAGER EXPAT
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES-OCG, KILO PROJECT
AL-QAEDA CITY, YEMEN
05.2023 - 09.2023
- To improve the quality of care in the OT, IPD surgery and ICU by proper and close supervision of the surgical activities in the project
- To make sure no patient is sent to OT without a consent signed and the surgical procedure safety checklist is being filled for every patient as required by MSF protocols.
- Rational prescription of antibiotics and every patient is provided with prophylaxis antibiotic before major surgical procedures according to MSF protocols.
- Participate to daily round with the specialist and to make sure the discussions of cases is done properly and documented.
- Daily OT list is planned and respected and to make sure emergencies are given priority.
- I was able to create an OT manual with the help of senior Anesthesiologist and Orthopaedic surgeon expats which will help to act as a baseline guideline on how the OT should be and how to conduct and behave in the OT.
- Analyzed data from various sources to identify areas of improvement in the department's operations.
- To improve the supervision and support of the surgeons and Anesthesiologists.
- To make the rosters of the specialists and to make sure all specialists on duty per roster attend the morning meetings, arrive on time, and leave at the end of the shift.
- Assure good handover of patients and good communication between surgeons and Anesthesiologists.
- Set clear objective are set for every specialist and evaluations are done before leaving.
- Assure proper communication between the specialists and medical doctors especially when they are called to review patients in the ER and to document in the file for every patient.
- Developed strategies for problem solving and conflict resolution among team members.
ER/OPD MEDICAL DOCTOR EXPAT
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES-OCG, EL-GENEINA TEACHING HOSPITAL
WEST DARFUR, SUDAN
08.2022 - 02.2023
- To improve the quality of care in the OPD and ER working closely with the Nursing and MDs team by:
- To make sure all patients admitted in the department fit the criteria of admission.
- To make that Patients were treated according to the protocols to ensure the rational use of drugs.
- To do Follow up and regular clearance of patients to ease the patients’ flow in the department (at least once/day and based on needs)
- To do Patients’ handovers are done with the MDs team while admitting patients and at the end of his duty for night shift MD.
- Ensure capacity building of the team and improve the settings by:
- Bedside discussions with MDs and Nursing teams according to needs identified (At least 2 topics/weeks) were conducted.
- To make sure Nursing team was able to identify emergency signs and respond to them efficiently.
- Worked closely with managers’ team (MAM, NAM and Nurses supervisor) to ensure the department was well organized (Materials were available for patients’ management and arranged properly for easy access)
- Participated in data collection improvement by:
- To make sure all the patients’ files were completed (diagnosis, history, treatment and decision at the end of the stay)
- Follow up of DHIS2 sheets filling (ER sheet and register) with supervisors to ensure the quality of report (At least once a week) was done.
- To Keep inform and provide MAM the information on deaths for the monthly mortality analysis update.
- I was to ensure the request of Laboratory tests and Image studies are rationalized according to the needs of the patients.
- Participated in project meetings especially medical meetings at project level according to the schedule.
MEDICAL ACTIVITY MANAGER
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES-OCG, NDUTA CAMP
KIBONDO, KIGOMA, TANZANIA
12.2021 - 07.2022
- To Supervise the clinicians (medical doctors, clinical officers) and medical interpreters (MI), technical and direct supervision which includes:
- To make sure Human resources are distributed as per required standards and workload.
- To take major ward rounds in different medical departments which included Pediatric ICU and Neonatology ICU, normal pediatric wards and Adult wards alsosupporting the Maternity department.
- All MDs, clinical officers and medical interpreters have their objectives updated, appraisals annually or as deemed necessary.
- To Assure quality of care to the services provided to our patients.
- Different platforms and measures for quality assurance are put in place e.g., audit/review meetings such as Mortality and morbidity review every month.
- MSF guidelines and protocols are followed during service provision whichincludes Training done regularly to the team.
- The number of deaths is reduced in the hospital especially to achieve a Neonatalmortality rate of less than 10%.
- Admission criteria in different units are in place and implemented.
- Rational drug analysis is done regularly.
- To Update EPREP activities in the project according to threat following MSF guidelines.
- EPREP document/ strategy is reviewed and updated as needed in cooperation with the MTL.
- The ERT is trained on the epidemic threat around case management preparedness simulations on different epidemic threats and are done at least quarterly.
MEDICAL DOCTOR & EMERGENCY ROOM SUPERVISOR
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES-OCG, NDUTA CAMP
KIBONDO, KIGOMA, TANZANIA
10.2018 - 11.2021
- Capable of conducting assessment and supervision of the Triage, OPD and inside the Emergency Room to have a smooth flow of patients and to make sure good quality of health care services are being maintained.
- To serve as a referent attending and reviewing the sickest patients in the ER.
- To provide palliative care in outpatient settings ranging from assessment to development and implementation of care plans.
- To collaborate with clinical officers, nurses, and other clinical staff to provide clinical management to patients and establish proper diagnoses to direct them to appropriate departments with clinical officers for stabilization before being admitted to respective wards.
- Head of Emergency Preparedness and Response team(ePrepR) at the level of the field responsible for responding to disease outbreaks such as (Covid-19, Cholera and Ebola) and Mass Casualty Incidence (MCI).
- To provide support to clinical officers and medical doctors in IPD and Maternity on reviewing difficult cases that either need collective decision or referral to the higher health care facility.
- Possesses skills to perform point of care ULTRASOUND at an advanced level. (POCUS) which includes cardiac, lung and FAST, eFAST and FASH. Also being able to diagnose acute conditions such as intestinal obstruction and Acute appendicitis.
- To provide Staff Education and Training; capable of preparing, organizing and conducting practical(simulations) and theory training. Also possesses skills in training and facilitating new POCUS trainees in both theory and practical parts.
- Capable of conducting progress Evaluations; Monitoring and evaluating the quality of care using quality of care tools and methods such as rational prescription analysis tools, updating and reviewing admission criteria for different units in the hospital and evaluation of patient medical file tools.
- Over some time, I have developed good surgical skills by being capable of performing minor surgical procedures such as Thoracocentesis, Abdominal tapping, incision and drainage (Abscess and pyomyositis), hydrocelectomy, circumcision and management of closed fractures.
Tutor
PARADIGMS COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES
Dar es salaam, Tanzania
04.2016 - 10.2018
- To tutor clinical officer students in clinical subjects such as Internal Medicine, Obstetrics and Gynecology and Paediatrics both in theory and clinical aspects.
- To perform as an Academic officer; Capable of preparing class session timetables and allocation of subjects to the respective tutors.
- Capable to develop study plans for different subjects and training clinical officers in practical aspects by using real patients in a hospital context.
- Capable of preparing evaluations which included Theory and practical examinations, Marking schemes and final release of results according to the ministry of health requirements and standards.
- Was able to translate the curriculum and put it in use in order to provide a standard level of knowledge and skills.
MEDICAL DOCTOR
Consolata Ikonda hospital
NJOMBE, TANZANIA
06.2015 - 03.2016
- Responsible for attending to patients at the Outpatient department.
- Responsible for performing minor surgical procedures.
- To participate in clinical meetings whereby different patient cases were discussed.
- To be available as second on-call during the night to support clinical officers on night duty.
Education
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH - Health Sciences
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH WALES
South Wales, UK11.2024
Doctor of Medicine - MEDICINE
MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania12.2014
Skills
- Surgery and Medical Activities supervision of more than 7 years which include maternity,neonatology,pediatrics and ER in humanitarian field with Medicines sans Frontieres(MSF)
- Surgical skills: I have long experience and capable of performing Major and minor surgeries both emergencies and elective in limited resources
- Capacity Building: I have long experience in planning, organizing and performing on job trainings in clinical management and POCUS
- Antimicrobial Stewardship program setup experience
- Possesses experience in leading Emergency preparedness and response teams to outbreaks such as Covid 19, Measles, and cholera
- Mass Casualty Planning and Implementation
- Emergency Medicine: I have long experience working in ER department for more than 4 years by managing patients and supervising ER activities
- Pediatrics and Neonatal care and management: I have experience of more than 7 years of managing pediatric and neonatal ICUs
- Point-of-care ULTRASOUND Advanced user and Facilitator with experience of training others to the level of basic users
- Public Health Specialist (hold a master’s in public health specializing in evidence-based medicine, epidemiology, Global Health, Health promotion and Health Protection) from South Wales University (United Kingdom)
- Humanitarian Project Cycle Management certification from University of Geneva,Switzerland
- Preparing guidelines and manuals: I have experience of preparing guidelines such as Alcohol Intoxication manual for Nduta project in Tanzania and Operating Theatre Manual for Kilo project in Yemen
- Possesses a good Verbal and Written communication
- Nutrition assessments
- Leadership: Good skills in leadership preferably style for me is Democratic and Transformation including Teamwork,collaboration and problem solving
- Preparing project proposals: capable of preparing project documents and proposal for new projects and activities
Certification
- Permanent/full registration (01/2018 - Present) Medical council of Tanganyika
- Certificate in Pediatrics and Neonatal Training in Nduta, (9th-15th January 2020)
- Certificate in Team Management Training (TMT) (From December 9th-14th 2019organized by MSF-OCG in Entebbe-Uganda).
- Certificate in Refresher and Advanced POCUS Training in Nduta, Tanzania from February 8th to 6th March 2020.
- Certificate in ImageSim-POCUS Image Interpretation Course-400 cases on August 30, 2019.University of Toronto (Faculty of Medicine).
- Certificate in Routine Triage with the IITT (OCG) MSF-OCG on Tembo on 28February2021.
- Certificate in Global POCUS Principles and Fundamentals 12/11/2021 from The Point-of Care Ultrasound Certification Academy.
- Certificate in Female Genital Mutilation and Cutting from 27th-29th March 2024 organized by MSF-OCG in Kampala -Uganda.
- Certification in Humanitarian Project Cycle Management from 17th February 2025 to 21st March 2025 from Geneva University-Switzerland
Languages
English
Full Professional
Swahili
Native or Bilingual
French
Elementary
References
- Zekky, M Lyatula, Medical Activity Manager (MSF-OCG), zekkymusso89@gmail.com, +255752071499
- Oula, Dramane, Project Medical Referent (MSF-OCG), ouladramane@yahoo.fr, +22671131975
- Serge, Oyede, Project Medical Referent (MSF-OCG), sergeoyede@yahoo.fr, +243832267804
Timeline
Medical Activity Manager
Medicines Sans Frontiers-Belgium
07.2025 - 01.2026
SURGERY DEPARTMENT MEDICAL DOCTOR
TABORA REGIONAL REFERRAL HOSPITAL
08.2024 - 06.2025
EMERGENCY ROOM/OPD MEDICAL DOCTOR AND SUPERVISOR
PUBLIC GENERAL HOSPITAL
01.2024 - 07.2024
ACTING Project Medical Referent (Medical Team leader)
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES-OCG, KILO PROJECT
06.2023 - 09.2023
SURGERY ACTIVITY MANAGER EXPAT
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES-OCG, KILO PROJECT
05.2023 - 09.2023
ER/OPD MEDICAL DOCTOR EXPAT
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES-OCG, EL-GENEINA TEACHING HOSPITAL
08.2022 - 02.2023
MEDICAL ACTIVITY MANAGER
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES-OCG, NDUTA CAMP
12.2021 - 07.2022
MEDICAL DOCTOR & EMERGENCY ROOM SUPERVISOR
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES-OCG, NDUTA CAMP
10.2018 - 11.2021
Tutor
PARADIGMS COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES
04.2016 - 10.2018
MEDICAL DOCTOR
Consolata Ikonda hospital
06.2015 - 03.2016
Doctor of Medicine - MEDICINE
MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES
MASTER OF PUBLIC HEALTH - Health Sciences
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH WALES