Kenyatta National Hospital, Kenya

Kenyatta National Hospital is well equipped to set stage for attaining continental and international healthcare standards. This has led to efficient diagnosis and patient management for better medical outcomes as well as enhanced its competitiveness in the contemporary healthcare industry at local, regional and international level. KNH has comprehensive care centre that handles HIV/Aids patients, dispensing medicine, monitoring viral loads, and counseling.

The centre has a patient support centre devoted to recovery of gender violence victims. The Accident and Emergency facility was expanded to improve patient flow. Improved integration of emergency and support services has made it a onestop patient management complex. The complex has an acute room, six emergency beds, laboratory and three spacious operating theatres dedicated to emergencies and surgery trauma patients as well as financial services, counseling and pharmacy. The hospital has also improved other services such as Radiology, Cardiology, Neonatal Critical Care Unit, laundry and power upgrade. KNH provides specialized services like open-heart operations, brain surgery, complicated eye surgery (intra-ocular), skin operations using laser and plastic surgery.

In an effort to improve quality of services and at the same time boost its financial base, KNH opened amenity wards which today form a fully fledged Private Wing occupying the 9th and 10th floors of the Tower Block. The Private Wing concept aims at providing quality healthcare at an affordable cost and retaining most of the professional staff within reach even as they continuewith their private practice within the hospital.

The Private Wing wards have enabled the hospital to improve the quality of care and reach out to the corporate clientele. The quality of services provided in the Private Wing is comparable to that of other private hospitals. This facility has indeed given Kenyans an alternative quality medical care that is affordable and competitive to In addition, the existing services offered by KNH private hospitals have attracted clientele in some parts of Africa with patients coming from the larger Eastern and Southern Africa region for specialized care.