Ocean Road Hospital

After initial plans to build the hospital in Zanzibar or Bagamoyo, Dar es Salaam was chosen as the location, because of its growing importance for the colonial administration.

From the time it was founded in 1897 and until 1901, the clinic was managed by Alexander Becker, who had been the colony's chief physician since 1891, followed by Werner Steuber (1901–1905) and subsequently Hugo Meixner.

[1] Gustav Giemsa, working on the diagnosis of malaria and other parasital diseases, was the government pharmacist in Dar es Salaam at the time, and Robert Kudicke was the first pathologist at the hospital from 1908 onwards.

The radiotherapy unit of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Dar es Salaam, was shifted from Muhimbili Medical Centre to the Ocean Road Hospital.

[3] The conspicuous building in the "Arabian style" was erected in a park directly on the Indian Ocean according to plans by the German engineer August Wißkow.

[2] Along with the Azania Front Lutheran Church, built between 1899 and 1902,[6] and the Roman Catholic St. Joseph's Cathedral, constructed between 1897 and 1902,[7] Ocean Road Hospital belongs to a number of early historical buildings in Dar es Salaam.

[8] Today, the Ocean Road Cancer Institute is an oncology treatment, research and education center affiliated with the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences as a teaching hospital.