Kangudo Level 4 Hospital Description
Kangundo Level 4 Hospital is a Government health center that provides comprehensive medical and surgical services. located in Icinga Sub-location, Kangundo location, Kangundo Division, Kangundo Constituency in Machakos County.
Kangudo Level 4 Hospital Contacts
Type: Level 4 Hospital
Owner: Ministry of Health
Status: Operational
District: Kangundo, Eastern
Division: Kangundo
Location: Kangundo
Sub-Location: Isinga
Constituency: Kangundo
County: Machakos
Address: P.O. Box 1002
Postal Code: 90115
Town: Kangundo
Nearest Town: Kangundo
Email: kangundohospital@yahoo
Landline: 044-621546
Mobile: 0734-682618
Fax: 044-621093
Status: Operational
Number of Beds: 133
Number of Cots: 32
Kangudo Level 4 Hospital Services:
Kangudo Level 4 Hospital
- Antenatal
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Basic Emergency Obstetric Care
- Caesarean Section
- Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric Care
- Curative In-patient Services
- Curative Outpatient Services
- Family Planning
- Growth Monitoring and Promotion
- HIV Counselling and Testing
- Immunization
- Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses
- Prevention of Mother to Child transmission of HIV
- Radiology Services (e.g X-ray, UltraScan, MRI, etc)
- Rural Health Training Centre / Rural Health Demonstration Centre
- Tuberculosis Diagnosis
- Tuberculosis Labs
- Tuberculosis Treatments
Overview of Level 4 Hospitals in Kenya
Level 4 Hospitals 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 organizations (FBOs), NGOs, and private investors. Each county in Kenya has several Level 4 Hospitals, which are the main coordinating and referral center for the smaller units.
- Curative and preventive care and promotion of health of the people in the district;
- 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 district 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 district 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.