St. Theresa’s Mission Hospital Kiirua Description

St. Theresa’s Mission Hospital Kiirua is a Faith-Based Health Organization in the Catholic Diocese of Meru 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.

Vision

To be a Centre of Excellence offering Quality, Holistic, and Sustainable Health Care Services for all.

Mission

To offer Accessible and Affordable Promotive, Preventive, Curative, and Rehabilitative Health Care Services to all in accordance to the Social Teachings of the Catholic Church and set Health Standards.

St. Theresa’s Mission Hospital Kiirua History

The institution started as a dispensary in a single room meanwhile the Maternity was under construction in 1967. Due to the increased child mortality in the area, long-distance for mothers to the nearest Hospital in Meru town, the Sisters started a Maternity wing with a capacity of 20 beds and four employees with no general ward services. In 1978 the hospital bed capacity increased to 70 and the sisters took care of the expectant mothers in full capacity. Later in 1980, they saw the locals in great need of other medical services and opened up the general wards for women, children, and men.

In the year 2002, the Hospital bed capacity rose to 80 and grew to full status of a Hospital employing the first Medical Doctor / Surgeon who opened the Theatre. Today St. Theresa’s Mission Hospital has a bed capacity of 120 and offers a wide variety of inpatient and outpatient health services.

St. Theresa’s Mission Hospital Kiirua Contacts

                                St. Theresa’s Mission Hospital Kiirua

Nearest Town: Meru

Postal Address: P.O Box 2095-60200Meru, Kenya
Tel: +254 727 811 041 / +254 7002 065 486
Email: info@attheresahoso-kiirua.com
Web: http://www.sttheresahosp-kiirua.com/
Status: Operational

Number of Beds: 120

Number of Cots: 1

St. Theresa’s Mission Hospital Kiirua Services

1. Outpatient services -24hrs
2. Laboratory services -24hrs
3. Pharmacy Services -24hrs
4. Family Care Services (Maternal and Integrated Management of Childhood Illness): Monday to Friday 8:00 am-5:00 pm
5. Specialized Out-patient clinics:

• Paedtriacs’ Clinic: Wednesday
• Gynaecological Clinic : Wednesday and Friday
• Surgical Outpatient Clinic (S.O.P.C) : Monday to Fridays
• Orthopeadic Clinic: Every Monday
• Medical Outpatient Clinic(M.O.P.C) :Monday to Friday
• Comprehensive Care Center (CCC) and Chest Clinic : Monday to Friday
• Diabetic Clinic: Every Friday 9:00am to 12:00noon)
• Hypertensive Clinic : (Every Friday 8:00 Am to 12:30pm)
• ENT Clinic (Ear, Nose and Throat) Every Second Monday and Last Monday of the Month).
• Dermatology Clinic – First Thursday of the Month
• Physician Clinic – Every Friday
• Psychiatry -Thursday

6. Diagnostic services

• X-Ray 24hrs
• Ultra Sound Scan. 24hrs
• Copolscopy/Via Villi : (Monday to Friday)
• OGDs/Colonoscopy – Every Wednesday for Outpatient Patients
• ECHO (echocardiogram) Services (Alternate Saturdays)

7. Dental Services: Monday – Friday
8. Dialysis services: Monday – Friday
9. VCT Services: Monday – Friday
10. Community Outreach Services
11. Nutrition Consultation: Monday – Friday
12. In-Patient Services- 24hrs:

• General Medical Services
• Surgical Services
• Maternity Services
• Pediatric Services
• Private wing Services

13. Theatre Services
14. National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) Services:

• Out-patient Care for Civil Servants and disciplined forces
• National scheme for self sponsored and private sector Out-patient medical services
• In-Patient Medical Scheme for all NHIF Contributors

15. Physiotherapy Services: Monday – Friday
16. Ambulance services
17. Mortuary services

St. Theresa’s Mission Hospital Kiirua Clinics

1. Comprehensive Care Clinic
2. Diabetic Clinic
3. Hypertensive Clinic
4. Chest Clinic
5. Medical Outpatient Clinic
6. Dental Clinic

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.