Moi Teaching Referral Hospital Description
Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) is the second National Referral Hospital in Kenya after Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) providing specialized care to clients in Western Kenya, parts of Eastern Uganda and Southern Sudan. The hospital was started in 1916 with a bed capacity of 60 to cater for the Africans Health Needs. It later served as a District Hospital before attaining referral status vide Legal Notice No. 98 of 12th June 1998 of the State Corporations Act (Cap 446). Currently, the Hospital serves as a level six Hospital offering outpatient, inpatient, and specialized healthcare services. It is located along Nandi Road in Eldoret Town, Uasin Gishu County (310 Kilometers Northwest of Nairobi).
The Hospital serves residents of Western Kenya, parts of Eastern Uganda and Southern Sudan with a population of approximately 24 Million. The Hospital incorporates the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH)- which is the most comprehensive HIV/Aids program in sub-Saharan Africa with presence in 22 satellite sites across Western Kenya and over 150,000 patients put under antiretrovirals (ARVs). The Hospital also runs the Centre for Assault Recovery – Eldoret (CAR-E) that caters for gender-based and victims of sexual violence. MTRH partners with Moi University College of Health Sciences and Regional Blood Transfusion Centre (RBTC). MTRH has also forged Strategic Partnerships and Alliances with the Ministry of Health; Development Partners e.g Indiana University and Duke (USA), University of Toronto (Canada), Suez Canal University (Egypt); Shoe4Africa Foundation, New York (USA); University of Linkoping (Sweden); Doctor to Doctor Foundation (Amsterdam, Netherlands); and other stakeholders as well to better serve its clients.
MTRH operates a Training School offering a range of courses including; Higher Diploma programs in Critical Care Nursing, Nephrology Nursing, Peri-operative Nursing, Oncology Nursing, Clinical Medicine and Surgery, Child Health and Pediatrics’, Mental Health and Psychiatry, Medical Oncology and Chronic Diseases Management. The School also offers Diploma courses in Kenya Registered Nursing (KRN), Kenya Registered Community Health Nursing (in-service), Orthopedics Trauma Technology, Health Records and Information Technology. The Training also offers Certificate in Mortician Services and Anesthetic Assistant Services as well as proficiency in Basic Life Support. The Training School also offers a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy.
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Moi Teaching Referral Hospital Services
MTRH as a level six Hospital offers a range of services to clients including; Oncology services, Renal Medicine, Paediatric, Renal Services, Paediatric Surgery, Kidney Transplants, Alcohol, and Rehabilitative, Spinal and Neurosurgical operations, Specialized Orthopedics and Trauma, Cardiology, Paediatric, and free Maternity Services among others.
Other Services offered at Moi Teaching Referral Hospital :
- Antenatal
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Basic Emergency Obstetric Care
- Caesarean Section
- Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric Care
- Curative In-patient Services
- Curative Outpatient Services
- Family Planning
- Growth Monitoring and Promotion
- HIV Counselling and Testing
- Home-Based Care
- Immunization
- Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses
- Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV
- Radiology Services (e.g X-ray, UltraScan, MRI, etc)
- Rural Health Training Centre / Rural Health Demonstration Centre
- Tuberculosis Diagnosis
- Tuberculosis Labs
- Tuberculosis Treatments
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Moi Teaching Referral Hospital Contacts
Name: Moi Teaching Referral Hospital
Location: along Nandi Road in Eldoret Town
Country: Kenya
County: Uasin Gishu
Postal Address: P.o. Box 3-30100, Kenya
Tel: (+254) 053-2033471/4
Cell Numbers: (+254)-722-201277,(+254)-734-600461
Fax: +254-053-2061749
Email: ceo@mtrh.go.ke
Moi Teaching Referral Hospital Website:
http://www.mtrh.go.ke
Moi Teaching Referral Hospital News
MTRH acquires additional equipment in cancer fight
Updated On:4th February 2018
Source: www.nation.co.ke
The Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret has acquired supplementary equipment to handle the high number of cancer patients seeking treatment both as inpatients and outpatients in western Kenya.
The second-largest referral hospital in the country has a unit that can handle 500 patients, which is however inadequate for patients some from as far as Uganda.
“The unit can handle diagnostic and chemotherapy but the high charges are unaffordable to most patients,” Dr. Wilson Aruasa, the hospital’s chief executive officer said.
SPECIALISTS
Dr. Aruasa disclosed that the hospital has procured both Linac and brachytherapy machines, which are to be delivered, installed and commissioned by April.
“Cancer is treated in six cycles with charges ranging between Sh5,000 and Sh10,000 and we are working with insurance agencies to make it affordable to most patients,” he said.
Construction of Chandaria cancer and chronic disease center that will offer both radiotherapy and chemotherapy will be operational by the end of the year.
RENAL PATIENTS
Kenya has less than 29 nephrologists including in its two referral hospitals, 24 specialists to manage adult patients and five for children.
The specialists are expected to serve 44 million Kenyans, placing the country at 0.50 nephrologists per million population.
This has led to the stretching of renal facilities at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) and MTRH making it virtually impossible for renal patients to access timely and affordable health care.
“Going by this rate implies that each nephrologist who deals with adult kidney patients handles about two million cases, whereas each nephrologist who specializes in children’s renal issues handles 10 million cases,” Dr. Phillip Chepting’ a, a kidney specialist at MTRH, said.
SHORTAGE
A report by Clinical Kidney Journal 2016 indicates that Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ghana, Nigeria, and Sudan are among the countries in the African with less than one nephrologist per one million people.
Health specialists say thousands of kidney patients who cannot afford dialysis or transplant are dying due to the outrageous cost of treatment in private hospitals.
“There are only eight transplant surgeons for adults, six of whom are based at KNH in Nairobi and two at MTRH,” Dr. Chepting’ a said, adding that Kenya currently has no transplant surgeon for kids.
He added that Sh20 billion is lost annually due to the increased number of patients seeking kidney treatment in foreign hospitals.
“There is a need for the government to facilitate the tests to be done locally to reduce costs and save time. Some samples take about two weeks for results to return from South Africa,” he explained.