Mbagathi County Hospital Description

Mbagathi County Hospital is a government health center that provides comprehensive medical and surgical services. It is situated in Kenyatta Golf Course Location, Dagoretti District of Nairobi County. The hospital was originally known as “Infectious Diseases Hospital” (IDH) under the then “King George VI Hospital,” currently Kenyatta National Hospital.

It was built in the 1950s to offer health care services, mainly for infectious diseases which required isolation such as Tuberculosis, Measles, Meningitis, and Leprosy. In the year 1995, IDH was curved from Kenyatta National Hospital and transformed into an autonomous District Hospital for Nairobi, though with very poor and dilapidated facilities.

Mbagathi County Hospital Contacts

Type:  County Hospital
Owner: Ministry of Health
Status: Operational

Physical Address: Kilimani Estate, Nairobi
Postal Address:
Telephone: 0202719600
City: Nairobi
E-mail:
Web:

Mbagathi County Hospital

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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 Labs
18.  Tuberculosis Treatments

Overview of County Hospitals in Kenya

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 centers and dispensaries;
3. Treatment techniques such as surgery not available at health centers;
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 center;
6. Training and technical supervision to health centers; as well as a resource center for health centers at each district hospital;
7. Twenty-four-hour services;

1. Obstetrics and gynecology;
2. Child health;
3. Medicine;
4. Surgery, including anesthesia;
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 programs.