Kisumu County Hospital Details, Services, Contacts and Facilities

Kisumu County Hospital Description

Kisumu County Hospital is a government health centre which has the resources to provide comprehensive medical and surgical services. It is located in Kisumu East, Nyanza, Winam Divison, Kisumu Town East.

Kisumu County Hospital Contacts

Type: County Hospital
Owner: Ministry of Health
Status: Operational
county: Kisumu East, Nyanza
Division: Winam
Location: Township
Sub-Location: Northern
Constituency: Kisumu Town East
County: Kisumu

Address: 1818
Postal Code: 40100
Town: Kisumu
Nearest Town: Kisumu

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Status: Operational
Number of Beds: 195
Number of Cots: 0

Kisumu County Hospital Services:

                                        Kisumu County Hospital

  1.  Antenatal
  2.  Antiretroviral Therapy
  3.  Basic Emergency Obstetric Care
  4. Caesarean Section
  5.  Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric Care
  6.  Curative In-patient Services
  7.  Curative Outpatient Services
  8.  Family Planning
  9.  Growth Monitoring and Promotion
  10.  HIV Counselling and Testing
  11.  Immunization
  12.  Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses
  13.  Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV
  14.  Radiology Services (e.g X-ray, UltraScan, MRI, etc)
  15.  Rural Health Training Centre / Rural Health Demonstration Centre
  16.  Tuberculosis Diagnosis
  17. Tuberculosis Labs
  18.  Tuberculosis Treatments
  19.  Youth Friendly Services

 Overview of County 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.  Each sub-county in Kenya has several County Hospital, which is the main coordinating and referral centre for the smaller units.

 County Hospitals are the first referral hospital and form an integral part of the County health system. They are managed by medical superintendents. 
 County Hospitals in Kenya should provide the following:
  1. Curative and preventive care and promotion of health of the people in the County;
  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 County hospitals;
  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 County hospitals;
  7. Twenty-four-hour services;
The following clinical services are provided in County 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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