The members of the Association "Doctors for Ifakara" see their task in supporting St. Francis Referral Hospital, a hospitals founded in 1953 by the Capuchin Fathers of Switzerland and Dr. Karl Schoepf, an Austrian surgeon from Zams/Austria, in the town of Ifakara, in the south-east of Tanzania. Together with the “Austrian Development Agency” (ADA), the provincial government of Tyrol and many private persons, our commitment centres on the improvement of medical care for the local population.
Ushirika wa „Madaktari kwa ajili ya Ifakara“ umeanzishwa kwa lengo la kuisaidia hospitali ya Mtakatifu Fransisi ambayo ni hospitali teule ya wilaya. Hospitali hii ambayo iko katika mji wa Ifakara, kusini mashariki mwa Tanzania, ilianzishwa na shirika la wakapuchini toka nchini Uswisi kwa kushirikiana na daktari mtaalam wa upasuaji, Dk. Karl Schöpf kutoka nchini Austria, ambaye kwa sasa anaishi Zams, Tiroli – Austria. Kwa kushirikiana na shirika la „msaada wa kimaendeleo“ la Austria, serikali ngazi ya mkoa wa Tiroli na watu wengi binafsi tunaelekeza jitihada zetu katika kuboresha kiwango cha matibabu katika sehemu mahalia.