Kiambu Level 5 Hospital Details, Services, Facilities and Contact

Kiambu Level 5 Hospital Description

Kiambu Level 5 Hospital is a Government health centre which provides comprehensive medical and surgical services. It is located in Township Sub-location, Settled Area location, Githunguri division, Kiambaa Constituency in Kiambu County.

Kiambu Level 5 Hospital Contacts

♦ Type: Level 5 Hospital
♦ Owner: Ministry of Health
♦ Status: Operational
♦ District: Kiambu East, Central
♦ Division: Kiambaa
♦ Location: Settled Area
♦ Sub-Location: Township
♦ Constituency: Kiambaa
♦ County: Kiambu

♦ Address: P.O. Box 39
♦ Postal Code: OO9OO
♦ Town: Kiambu
♦ Nearest Town: Kiambu

♦ Email:
♦ Landline:
♦ Mobile:
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♦ Status: Operational
♦ Number of Beds: 316
♦ Number of Cots: 67

Kiambu Level 5 Hospital Hospital Services:

                                      Kiambu Level 5 Hospital

♦ Antenatal
♦  Basic Emergency Obstetric Care
♦  Curative Outpatient Services
♦  Family Planning
♦  Growth Monitoring and Promotion

♦  HIV Counselling and Testing
♦  Immunization
♦  Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV
♦  Tuberculosis Labs
♦  Tuberculosis Treatments

 

Overview of Level 5 Hospitals in Kenya

Hospitals in Kenya are classified commonly based on the agency that owns the health facility. The players in the health sector are the Government of Kenya, which manages public health institutions, faith-based organisation (FBOs), NGOs and private investors. Few counties in Kenya has Level 5 Hospital, which is the main coordinating and referral centre for the smaller units.

Referral Hospital is an integral part of the district health system. They are managed by medical superintendents. 

Level 5 Hospitals in Kenya should provide the following:

  1. Curative and preventive care and promotion of health of the people in the district;
  2. Quality clinical care by a more skilled and competent staff than those of the health centres and dispensaries;
  3. Treatment techniques such as surgery not available at health centres;
  4. Laboratory and other diagnostic techniques appropriate to the medical, surgical, and outpatient activities of the district hospital;
  5. Inpatient care until the patient can go home or back to the health centre;
  6. Training and technical supervision to health centres; as well as a resource centre for health centres at each district hospital;
  7. Twenty-four-hour services;
The following clinical services are provided in Level 5 Hospitals in Kenya
  1. Obstetrics and gynaecology;
  2. Child health;
  3. Medicine;
  4. Surgery, including anaesthesia;
  5. Accident and emergency services;
  6. Non—clinical support services;
  7. Referral services;
  8. Contribution to the district-wide information generation, collection planning, implementation and evaluation of health service programmes.
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