Rwanda Works built the Ngeruka Health Center with resources from the Garth Brooks Teammates for Kids Foundation and the Schmidt Family Foundation. Opened in June 2010 in an area where top-quality health facilities were essentially nonexistent, the Ngeruka Health Center now serves 27,000 residents. The facility spans 1,000 square meters and has consistent power, running water, and a laboratory that performs rapid tuberculosis, malaria, and other diagnostic tests.
Ngeruka Health Center is equipped to offer consultation services, comprehensive maternity care, immunizations, hospitalizations, private family planning, and health education. Ngeruka also provides anti-retroviral treatment for HIV/AIDS, services for which Ngeruka residents previously had to travel over ten miles. As in all Rwanda Works-supported health centers, maternal health is an important focus for Ngeruka Health Center; the MAIA Foundation has provided additional support to improve maternal health services in Ngeruka.
When Ngeruka opened, Rwanda’s Prime Minister, Bernard Makuza, visited and praised it as being among the best health centers in the country.