Sololo Mission Hospital Description
Sololo Mission Hospital is a medium size non-profit Misson, a secondary hospital that provides comprehensive medical and surgical services and facilities in aligning with the requirements of the Department of Health Service Support of Public Health Ministry. located in Sololo Sub-location, Obbu location, Obbu Division, Moyale Constituency in Marsabit County.
Sololo Mission Hospital Contacts
Nearest Town: Sololo
Physical Location: Moyale, Marsabit
Postal Address: P. O Box 330, Moyale 60500
Telephone: 0722-568156
Email: solomonmissionhospital@gmail.com
Status: Operational
Number of Beds: 130
Number of Cots: 0
Categories: Mission Hospitals in Kenya
Status: Operational
District: Moyale, Eastern
Division: Obbu
Location: Obbu
Sub-Location: Sololo
Constituency: Moyale
County: Marsabit
Sololo Mission Hospital Services
Sololo Mission Hospital
- Antenatal
- Antiretroviral Therapy
- Basic Emergency Obstetric Care
- Caesarean Section
- Curative In-patient Services
- Curative Outpatient Services
- Growth Monitoring and Promotion
- HIV Counselling and Testing
- Immunization
- Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses
- Prevention of Mother to Child transmission of HIV
- Radiology Services (e.g X-ray, UltraScan, MRI, etc)
- Tuberculosis Diagnosis
- Tuberculosis Treatments Sololo Mission Hospital Photo
Overview of Mission Hospital in Kenya
The missionaries played a very key role in the provision of healthcare in Kenya before independence which led to the establishment of mission hospitals that have continued to serve the Kenyan population to date. Mission hospitals are faith-based institutions that provide health care. These hospitals were established by Christian missionaries.
- Curative and preventive care and promotion of health of the people in the county;
- Quality clinical care by a more skilled and competent staff than those of the health centers and dispensaries;
- Treatment techniques such as surgery not available at health centers;
- Laboratory and other diagnostic techniques appropriate to the medical, surgical, and outpatient activities of the district hospital;
- Inpatient care until the patient can go home or back to the health center;
- Training and technical supervision to health centers; as well as a resource center for health centers at each Mission hospital;
- Twenty-four-hour services;
- Obstetrics and gynecology;
- Child health;
- Medicine;
- Surgery, including anesthesia;
- Accident and emergency services;
- Non—clinical support services;
- Referral services;
- Contribution to the district-wide information generation, collection planning, implementation, and evaluation of health service programs.