Our Lady of Lourdes Mwea Mission Hospital Description
Our Lady of Lourdes Mwea Mission Hospital is a Catholic Mission Hospital that provides comprehensive medical and surgical services and facilities in aligning with the requirements of the Department of Health Service Support of Public Health Ministry.
It is being run by the Sisters of Mary Immaculate of Nyeri who are the sole proprietors of the facility in collaboration with the Catholic Diocese of Murang’ a. The Hospital is located along Nairobi –Embu road. It’s about 1.5 km from Ngurubani town. Being located in an area where rice-growing was the main source of income, the hospital was able to sustain itself by providing health care services to rice farmers.
Our Lady of Lourdes Mwea Mission Hospital is a registered non-governmental organization (NGO) with the mandate of delivering affordable and accessible health services to all, especially the poor and vulnerable one of the largest County Referral hospitals in Kirinyaga County, serving a large and diverse population of approximately 500,000. It started in 1962 as a dispensary and promoted to a health center in 1968 grown to a modern referral hospital after upgrading in 1979.
In addition to health care services provided, the hospital offers facilities for teaching/training of health professionals (Diploma in Nursing, Internship Centre for both Medicine Students (Bachelors) clinical medicine students (Diploma), attachment center for pharmacist technologists, laboratory technologists and social workers) and research. Our Lady of Lourdes Mwea Hospital plays various roles in the region by providing a large range of services at the hospital and through partnerships with the greater community, public health, and other organizations.
Vision
To be the leading providers of quality health and spiritual care in the Mt. Kenya Region Kirinyaga county at a place called Mwea.
Mission
Sisters of Mary Immaculate and Staff of Our Lady of Lourdes Mwea Mission Hospital are Committed to offer excellent, affordable, accessible and acceptable health care to our patients and the community at large, including curative, preventive, promotive, rehabilitative and spiritual services.
Our Lady of Lourdes Mwea Mission Hospital Services
Our Lady of Lourdes Mwea Mission Hospital
- Antenatal
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Basic Emergency Obstetric Care
- Caesarean Section
- Curative In-patient Services
- Curative Outpatient Services
- Family Planning
- Growth Monitoring and Promotion
- Immunization
- Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses
- Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV
- Radiology Services (e.g X-ray, UltraScan, MRI, etc)
- Tuberculosis Diagnosis
- Tuberculosis Labs
- Tuberculosis Treatments
- Youth Friendly Services
Our Lady of Lourdes Mwea Mission Hospital Contacts
Categories: Medical Training Institutions
County: Kirinyaga
Physical Location: Mwea
Postal Address: P.O. Box 51, Wang’uru 10303
Phone: +254737801707/ +2540722260748 /+2540202032382
Email: info@ourladyoflourdesmweahospital.org
Web: http://ourladyoflourdesmweahospital.org/
Overview of Mission Hospital in Kenya
The missionaries played a very key role in the provision of healthcare in Kenya before independence which led to the establishment of mission hospitals that have continued to serve the Kenyan population to date. Mission hospitals are faith-based institutions that provide health care. These hospitals were established by Christian missionaries.
- Curative and preventive care and promotion of health of the people in the county;
- Quality clinical care by a more skilled and competent staff than those of the health centers and dispensaries;
- Treatment techniques such as surgery not available at health centers;
- Laboratory and other diagnostic techniques appropriate to the medical, surgical, and outpatient activities of the Mission hospital;
- Inpatient care until the patient can go home or back to the health center;
- Training and technical supervision to health centers; as well as a resource center for health centers at each Mission hospital;
- Twenty-four-hour services;
- Obstetrics and gynecology;
- Child health;
- Medicine;
- Surgery, including anesthesia;
- Accident and emergency services;
- Non—clinical support services;
- Referral services;
- Contribution to the district-wide information generation, collection planning, implementation, and evaluation of health service programs.