Mandera County Referral Hospital Details, Services, Facilities and Contact

Mandera County Referral Hospital Description

Mandera District Hospital is a Government health centre which provides comprehensive medical and surgical services. It is located in Bulla Power Sub-location, Bulla Jamhuri location, Central Division, Mandera East Constituency in Mandera County.

Mandera County Referral Hospital Contacts

Type: County Referral Hospital
Owner: Ministry of Health
Status: Operational
District: Mandera East, North Eastern
Division: Central
Location: Bulla Jamhuri
Sub-Location: Bulla Power
Constituency: Mandera East
County: Mandera

Contact In Charge: Dr. Adan Dima Medical Superintendant
Address: P.O. Box 7
Postal Code: 70300
Town: Mandera
Nearest Town: Mandera
Email:
Landline: 046-52327
Mobile:
Fax: 046-52327

Status: Operational
Number of Beds: 128
Number of Cots: 5

Mandera County Referral Hospital Services:

                             Mandera 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.  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.  Tuberculosis Diagnosis
  16.  Tuberculosis Labs
  17.  Tuberculosis Treatments

Overview of Referral 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 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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