Lions Sightfirst Eye Hospital Description
Lions Sightfirst Eye Hospital is a charitable organization, comprehensive eye care institution committed to delivering high quality treatment and care for patients offering, embracing all socio-economic backgrounds.
Lions Sightfirst Eye Hospital is dedicated to achieving excellence across the eye health clinical services, education, rehabilitation and sight enhancement services, eye bank and rural community outreach.
Recognized by the Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board as a specialist training Centre, the Hospital has grown to be the biggest eye hospital in the East African Region and serves all communities and cultures of the country using the most modern eye-care equipment in the country.
Lions Sightfirst Eye Hospital History
The hospital was founded in July 1997 to as a comprehensive eye care facility with the main hospital located in Loresho Westlands District, Nairobi County. LSEH focuses on economically disadvantaged groups of the society in rural and urban areas extending its services to them through community outreach programs. The Eye Hospital has a general outpatient service with 8 consulting rooms to serve walk-in patients with a large reception and waiting shed which can accommodate over 200 patients. The general clinic is offered at a highly subsidized rate. The hospital also has 2 fully equipped main theaters, 2 minor theaters and a separate male and female general ward which accommodates 66 patients at a time.
Lions Sightfirst Eye Hospital Achievements
Since establishment in 1997, LSEH has:
Served over 2.0 million people with 70% of the services provided free of cost to the patients.
Held over 4,000 eye screening camps and conducted over 86,325 free sight restoration cataract surgeries.
Harvested over 3500 donor corneas and transplanted over 1500 donor corneas of them majority to the needy patients.
Started the first ever Eye Bank in East and Central Africa to process, store, analyze and issue the tissues for transplant.
Started an ultra-modern LASIK Centre to cater for patients with refractive errors.
Recognized by the Medical Practitioners and Dentist Board as a specialized Training Centre.
Established a fully equipped Vitreoretinal Clinic.
Established a state of the art Dental Care clinic conveniently located within the Lions Service Centre and offers a full range of dental services for adults and children.
Established an ENT and Hearing Centre catering for all patients with hearing problems as well as providing quality hearing aids to the patients. In collaboration with doctors from Sweden, the clinic performs regular camps twice a year to provide surgery to those with complicated hearing loss.
Lions Sightfirst Eye Hospital, Photo
Lions Sightfirst Eye Hospital Services
- General Out Patient & Executive Clinic
- Vitreo-Retinal Clinic
- Glaucoma Clinic
- Refractive Surgery
- Optical Center
- Low Vision Clinic
- Pediatric Opthalmology
- Orbital Oculoplasty
- Eye Glossary
Lions Sightfirst Eye Hospital Contacts
Physical Address: Kapatgat Road, Loresho, Nairobi
Cell: +254 728 970 601 / +254 733 619 191
Tel: +254 20 418 3239
+254 20 418 0626
+254 20 418 0601
+254 20 418 1083
+254 20 418 0517
+254 20 418 0820
+254 20 418 4049
Email Mail: info@lionsloresho.org
Web: http://www.lionsloresho.org/
WorkingHours
Mon – Fri : 0800hrs – 1700hrs
Saturday : 0900hrs – 1300hrs
Sundays & Public Holidays : Closed