Makueni County Referral Hospital Details, Services, Facilities and Contact

Makueni County Referral Hospital Description

Makueni District Hospital is a Government health centre which provides comprehensive medical and surgical services. It is located in Unoa Sub-location, Wote location, Wote Division, Makueni Constituency in Makueni County.

Makueni County Referral Hospital Contacts

Type: Referral Hospitals
Owner: Ministry of Health
Status: Operational
District: Makueni, Eastern
Division: Wote
Location: Wote
Sub-Location: Unoa
Constituency: Makueni
County: Makueni

Address: P.O. Box 95
Postal Code: 90300
Town: Makueni
Nearest Town: Wote

Email: makuhosp@yahoo.com
Landline: 044-33175
Mobile: 0723-919457
Fax: 04433194

Status: Operational
Number of Beds: 126
Number of Cots: 32

Makueni County Referral Hospital Services:

                           Makueni County Referral 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.  Home-Based Care
  12.  Immunization
  13.  Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses
  14.  Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV
  15.  Radiology Services (e.g X-ray, UltraScan, MRI, etc)
  16.  Tuberculosis Diagnosis
  17.  Tuberculosis Treatments
  18.  Youth Friendly Services

Overview of  Referral Hospital 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 county in Kenya has Referral 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. 

Referral 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 Referral 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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