Olkalou District Hospital Details, Services, Facilities and Contacts

Olkalou District Hospital Description

Olkalou Sub-District Hospital is a Government health centre located in Matura Sub-location, Rurii location, Ol kalou Division, Ol kalou Constituency in Nyandarua County.

Olkalou District Hospital Contacts

Type: Sub-District Hospital
Owner: Ministry of Health
Status: Operational
District: Nyandarua North, Central
Division: Ol kalou
Location: Rurii
Sub-Location: Matura
Constituency: Ol kalou
County: Nyandarua

Address: P.O. Box 221
Postal Code: 20303
Town: Olkalou
Nearest Town: Olkalau

Email:
Landline: 065-65733
Mobile: 0733-685480
Fax:

Status: Operational
Number of Beds: 142
Number of Cots: 41

Olkalou District Hospital Services:

Olkalou District Hospital Details, Services, Facilities and Contacts

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 Home
11. 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.  Rural Health Training Centre / Rural Health Demonstration Centre
17.  Tuberculosis Diagnosis
18.  Tuberculosis Labs
19.  Tuberculosis Treatments
20.  Youth Friendly Services

Olkalou District 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.

Level 4 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 resource centre for health centres at each district hospital;
7. Twenty-four-hour services;

The following clinical services are provided in Level 4 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.