St. Mary’s Mission Hospital Mumias Description

St. Mary’s Mission Hospital, Mumias is a Private Hospital & Nursing Home 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. It is located in Dioceses of Kakamega in Kakamega County.

St. Mary’s Mission Hospital Mumias Contacts

Categories: MissionHospitals in Kenya
County: Kakamega
Physical Location: Dioceses of Kakamega
Postal Address: P.O. Box 250, Mumias 50102
Telephone: 056-641270
Mobile: 0723-927231, 0736-516466
Email: stmarysmission2008@gmail.com

St. Mary’s Mission Hospital Mumias Services

                          St. Mary’s Mission Hospital Mumias

♦  Antenatal
♦  Antiretroviral Therapy
♦  Basic Emergency Obstetric Care
♦  Caesarean Section
♦ Curative In-patient Services
♦ Curative Outpatient Services
♦  Family Planning
♦  Growth Monitoring and Promotion
♦  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 Labs
♦  Tuberculosis Treatments
♦  Youth Friendly Services

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.

1. Curative and preventive care and promotion of health of the people in the county;
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 Mission 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.