Nyambene Sub-County Hospital Details, Services, Facilities and Contact

Nyambene Sub-County Hospital Description

Nyambene District Hospital is a Private health centre which provides comprehensive medical and surgical services. It is located in Maua Sub-location, Maua location, Igembe C Division, Igembe Constituency in Meru County.

Nyambene Sub-County Hospital Contacts

Type: Sub-County Hospital
Owner: Ministry of Health
Status: Operational
District: Igembe, Eastern
Division: Igembe C
Location: Maua
Sub-Location: Maua
Constituency: Igembe
County: Meru

Address: P.O. Box 482
Postal Code: 60600
Town: Maua
Nearest Town: Maua

Email:
Landline: 064-21255
Mobile: 0733-668877
Fax: 21355

Status: Operational
Number of Beds: 40
Number of Cots: 8

Nyambene Sub-County Hospital Services:

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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.  Immunization
  12.  Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV
  13.  Radiology Services (e.g X-ray, UltraScan, MRI, etc)
  14.  Tuberculosis Diagnosis
  15.  Tuberculosis Treatments
  16.  Youth Friendly Services

Overview of Sub-County 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 Sub-County Hospitals, which is the main coordinating and referral centre for the smaller units.

Sub-County Hospital is an integral part of the district health system. They are managed by medical superintendents. 

Sub-County 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 Sub-County 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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