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Healthcare services to patients or sick people from a hospital require that they be offered in the best environment for their quick recovery from the diseases they were suffering from. Elderly people may also need more attention in the care for their better living. This has therefore made certain companies to offer care and therapy services to ensure that the sick and elderly are given the care services that they need. Kenya Home Nursing and Therapy Services (KEHNTS) is one of the services providers for the elderly and sick in the society and they provides various services which include;

Home-Based Services

Home based clinical nursing, assisted living care, medical management and medication to patients are all provided at home by personnel of KEHNTS. This nursing and home care services provider also offer other professional home nursing care services which include care provided at home by very qualified registered nurses who are certified with the nurse aids. The nursing services include clinical assessment, IV services, medication training, family education, diabetic treatment and any other needs that require supervised clinical nurse. This nurses also can offer 12 hours services or 24 hours depending on the condition of the individual requiring the services. They offer other additional services such as self-care assistance, meal preparation, hygiene, medications, safety, companionship and general support. They also provide elder care services, a specialized nursing and therapy care program for elderly who need assisted living, medication assistance, feeding and meal preparation assistance, safety supervision, hygiene and general care as their staff are certified in a gerontology program that include elder care special need management.

Physiotherapy Services

At Kenya Home Nursing and Therapy Services, they provide special physiotherapy (or physical therapy) services to a wide variety of patients, including but not limited to Back pain problems, Post-Surgical pain (orthopedic or medical), Accidents and Sports Injuries, Post Child Birth Pain, Stroke Rehabilitation, Neurological weakness, Tension headaches, Tension Massage and Relaxation, Abdominal pain as well as Sports injuries. All these services involving Physiotherapy are offered from their Center or at home in case the patients cannot reach the center and offered by the best qualified personnel with great experience in the field.

Speech Therapy services

KEHNTS offer the most unique services which involve speech and language therapy services to carious clients through a network of consulting speech therapists. This services covers the disorders that affects the patients speech, language, cognition, voice, swallowing and the rehabilitation or corrective treatment of physical and/or cognitive deficits/disorders resulting in difficulty with communication and swallowing. They offer the treatment of these disorders and difficulties depending on the nature and severity of the disorders, and the treatment range from physical strengthening exercises, instructive or repetitive practices and drilling, to use of audio-visual aids. Speech therapy may also involve sign language and the use of pictures symbols or augmentative and alternative communication.

Special Therapy Services

This institution also offer other special therapies which include hospital-based therapy which involve delivering rehabilitation services and involve Pediatrics therapy, physiotherapy, speech therapy, Pain management and counselling, Occupational Therapy/ Occupational Health, Ergonomics/ Independent Living Retraining, Substance Abuse Rehabilitation, Nutritional Services, Bariatric and Counselling as well as Family Therapy/ Counselling. In addition, KEHNTS provide outpatient Therapy services all the regions that have regional health centres.

As an institution for the provision of medical services, the institution also provide health management training which offer educative services such as nurse assistant training for the assistance of the nurses in charge of offering the home-based services to the patients. For the provision of the services, they can be contacted through their website at www.kehnts.org and dully filling the online form for their services. You can also visit them located in Gigiri Shopping Centre above Eldochem Pharmacy or contact them through Telephone +254 716 318356 or +254 774 307111

 

 

 Kitengela Medical Services is group of leading comprehensive private health care facilities providing general outpatient, inpatient and specialist services in the Kajiado region. The hospital has a bed capacity of over 70. It is comprised of the main hospital located in Kitengela town off the EPZ road and satellite facilities dedicated to give clients in the region access to quality health care. The staff constitutes a wide range of technical staff committed to provision of safe, effective, timely and efficient care for the benefit of the local community.

Services offered include

• 24-hour out-patient which involve diagnostic,curative and preventive treatment as well as emergy care and referrals supported fully by functional laboratory services,diagnostic imaging(ultrasound,Xray),dental,physiotherapy and optical services.
  

  General clinics

• Child welfare clinic twice a week(Wednesday and Saturday)

• Antenatal and family planning daily

• Comprehensive care clinic(CCC) for HIV positive patients weekly

• Tuberculosis Clinic weekly

• Medical out-patient clinic for conditions such as Hypertension and diabetes

• Physiotherapy-Kenya Medical Sciences offers variety of rehabilitative interventions to maintain and restore body movements and function following effects of aging,injury,disease or environment factors therefore improving quality of life

• In-patient services-General female,male and Child friendly paediatric wards,Maternity and Delivery rooms fully equipped for newborn resuscitation,incubator for premature neonates and phototherapy services

• Laboratory services-The Kitengela Medical laboratories are well equipped to offer wide range of clinical investigations .

• Pharmacy-The Kitengela Medical Services has duly well stocked pharmacy with variety of drugs that serves in-patients,out-patients as well as providing over-the-counter(OTC) medication.

• Imaging department- Radiography(X-Ray)and ultra-sound machines are available to aid clinical management.The services include plain radiography,contrast studies such as Barium studies and HSG.

• Ambulance services are available in case of emergency,transfers and referral patient transport services.

• Occupational medical services-The facility has a designated health practioners approved by the Doctorate of Occupational safety and health services licenced to perform occupational examinations on employees as provided for in the Occupational Safety and Health Act.

Accepted cards in bill clearance

• NHIF-May cover all-in-house medical care,delivery costs and emergency caeserian section.

• Britam

• Madison insurance

• Heritage

• APA

• Jubilee

• Pioneer

• UAP

The in-patient visiting hours are morning 7.00am-8.00am,noon 12.30-2.00 pm and evening 5.00pm-7.00 pm.

 

 

Commonly to many as RasiaHospital,JaramogiOgigaOdinga Teaching and referral Hospital (JOOTRH) is one of the oldest largest hospitals in Kenya. The hospital was founded by the colonial government in early 1900s when Kisumu was by then was known as an inland port. The hospital was fully expanded in the late 1960s to a district hospital serving a great number of people from western Kenya.

JaramogiOgingaOdinga Teaching and Referral Hospital is located in Kisumu city between Kondele and Kibuye along Kisumu- Kakemga highway.Currently this hospital serves more than 100 districts and sub-district hospitals in Western region of Kenya including larger hospitals such as Kakamega provincial general hospital which is located about 60 kilometers from Kisumu.

The hospital has many departments including: laboratory, surgery, nursing, casualty, comprehensive care center, mortuary,and physiotherapy just to mention but a few. The hospital operates in conjuction with other facilities located next to it. These include: the regional blood transfusion center that ensure that blood is available for the hospital. It also involve in screening of patients and donor blood for infectious diseases such as HIV and hepatitis. Next to JaramogiOgingaOdinga Teaching and Referral Hospital is the Mitchell Obama children health care facility. This provides child health services.

JOOTRH is a center for research and learning for various students and staffs in various professions. For instance students undertake their medical attachment at various departments in the hospital. Most institution across the country benefit benefits from this program including Kisumu Medical Training College which is located next to the hospital and Maseno University which sends its students to this hospital for weekly rotations. The hospital also provides an environment for various research works carried out by the Kenya Medical Research Institute and other institutions such as Center for Disease Control.

Services available at various departments of JaramogiOgingaOdinga Teaching and Referral Hospital include:

a)      Curative In-patient services

b)      Curative out-patient services

c)       Caesarian section

d)      Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric care

e)      HIV counseling and testing

f)       Family planning

g)      Growth monitoring and promotion

h)      Integrated Management of Childhood illness

i)        X-ray, CT scan, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Ultrascan

j)        Prevention of Mother to child transmission of HIV

k)      Rural Health Training Center

l)        Rural health demonstration

m)    Antenatal care

n)      Basic Emergency

o)      Antiretroviral Therapy

p)      Obstetric Care

q)      Immunization

 

 

For more information contact;

Address: P.O Box 849-40100, Kisumu

HIV/AIDS still has a huge impact in Kenya, and it is still rated among the killer diseases in Kenya. Although a decrease in the mortality has been reported in many areas in Kenya, there is still death occurring due to HIV/AIDS disease. The recent discovery of antiretroviral therapy (ARVs) in Kenya has significantly reduced the number of people dying because of HIV/AIDS. Although this has happen, the disease still has consequences to both the HIV/AIDS infected and affected people in Kenya. The impacts of HIV/AIDS in the society in Kenya include;

Demography

There is a decrease in population growth due large number of people dying in Kenya. There is a decrease in life expectancy in Kenya and a decrease in quality of life generally because the infected people do not live for a long time. For instance when Nyanza region in Kenya used to be the zone of HIV infection, many people died in a village, and there was a replacement in terms of birth expectancy. This leads to decrease in the number of people in that particular village in Kenya.

Households

There is a depletion of income and increase in level of poverty in Kenya due to death of a person who supplied the family members with basic needs. There is a decline in human resource due number of workers of several sectors in Kenya dying of this disease (HIV/AIDS).  There is more absenteeism in work. There is an increase in number of orphans in Kenya due to death of either mothers or fathers or both. There is less perceived need for saving and investment as the person who is infected bears in mind that he/she is going to die any time hence feels no need of saving or investing.

Industry and business settings

There is a decrease in labor in Kenya leading to decrease in products and services because there will be abrupt loss of workforce. Due to death there is added recruitment which will take time and also costs to the companies or organizations in Kenya especially when training new workers as a way of replacing who have been affected by the disease (HIV) or have died due to HIV/AIDS

Agriculture

There is a decrease in productivity in families or products or expertises therefore increase food insecurity in Kenya because the energetic people who are working in the farms have been weakened by the disease. The most people who work in our farms are the youth and they are the same group who are severely affected by the disease (HIV) hence dropping of the workforce numbers leading to low production in the agriculture sector in Kenya.

Education sector

There is a decrease in quality of education in Kenya due to increase in mortality rate, decrease in number of children going to school, absenteeism of teachers that contributes to poor performance in class.

Health sector

 There is pressure in the health budgets in Kenya, which means increase in expenditure to cater for patients in Kenya who are admitted for palliative care due HIV/AIDS disease. Other health problems in Kenya have been delegated to less importance, increased hospitalization causing bed shortage. Decrease in quality of health care is due to the number of high HIV patients and yet there is a little number of health care workers in Kenya working in the majority of health facilities in Kenya.

 

Aga Khan Hospital in Kisumu is of the branches of Aga Khan Hospitals in Kenya. This hospital was founded in the year 1952. The hospital provides good medical services and was awarded the Iso 9001:2000 certificate for providing clinical, administrative, diagnostic and support services that conform to the ISO standards. The hospital later upgraded the ISO standards and attained the ISO 9001:2008.

Aga Khan Hospital Kisumu is one of the referral hospitals that serve many hospitals around the western Kenya. It has greatly expanded and has opened various satellites in western Kenya including Kisii, Kakamega and Busia Kenya. The hospital operates on a twenty-hour basis offering its services in various aspects. This Institution provides essential services both curative, preventive, and research in various disease that pose a great threat to human population.

Aga Khan Hospital in Kisumu is run by highly qualified and experienced professionals doctors and Consultants who work as full-timers. The institution work to provide cost-effective, high quality health care to people in western Kenya as well as the neighboring countries such as Uganda, Tanzania plus other East Africa Countries. The hospital has a direct link with the Aga Khan Hospital Nairobi for referral and other services.

Approximately 500,000 patients benefits from the Agha Khan Hospital services annually. These include patients in both rural and urban areas. The following are the services that are offered at Aga Khan Hospital Kisumu:

a)     Doppler ultrasounds

b)    CT scans

c)     Histopathology and imaging services including image-guided nonvascular intervention.

d)    Endoscopy

e)     Ophthalmology

f)      Dental services

g)     Hemodialysis

h)    Surgery

i)       Paediatrics

j)       Maternity services

k)    Obstetrics

l)       Medicine

m)  Gynaecology

n)    Acute care

o)    Pharmacy

p)    Laboratory

 

The hospital also supports learning of both staff and students. Various colleges in Kenya send their students in this important learning center where they acquire additional skills and gain experience in practical clinical work.

To get more information on services offered by Agha Khan Hospital Kisumu visit their website: www.agakhanhospital.org/kisumu/

The Jacaranda Health Kenya is a healthcare outlet just off Thika Road, towards Ruai in Nairobi. Jacaranda Health Kenya is a health centre that offers maternity services in Nairobi. Jacaranda health facility in Nairobi was created due to the sole reason that every year quarter a million babies die in childbirth in Africa. The deaths of children during birth in Kenya are caused by bad health facilities, infections, post partum bleeding and a host of other factors. There was a need to create a health facility in Kenya that helps reduce the number of maternal deaths in Kenya.

Jacaranda Health facility in Nairobi caters for the middle class and lower class people in Kenya who are not able to pay lots of money for the maternity service in Nairobi. Jacaranda Health facility in Nairobi is made for the peri-urban areas and the outskirts of major towns in Kenya. Jacaranda Health facility in Kenya is suitable for low income areas in Kenya where the living and health conditions are very low. This is because in Kenya urban areas, most maternity clinics in Kenya are either too expensive or are not licensed. The unlicensed maternity clinics in Kenya can be detrimental and even be harmful to the health of anyone willing to deliver a child there. Jacaranda health clinic in Nairobi along Thika Road fills this gap since it is a great health facility outside Nairobi with state of the art equipment appropriate for delivery service in Kenya. The Jacaranda hospital in Nairobi is very clean and every expectant woman has her own room. Jacaranda Health facility in Nairobi caters for the women of the peri-urban areas in Kenya who are normally the bread winners of the family ensuring that they have safe delivery and are not absent to take care of their homes.

Jacaranda Health facility in Nairobi is an affordable health facility in Kenya and the clients are not from the upper class of the society. These middle class women in Kenya desire quality healthcare at an affordable price, which Jacaranda Health Hospital in Kenya provide. Services provided in Jacaranda Health facility in Nairobi include: clean hospitals, great access to information on maternal health in Kenya, welcoming nurses and midwives in Kenya, great health facilities and a serene environment. Jacaranda Health facility in Nairobi is located in Ruiru which is an area in Nairobi that is quiet and with fresh air. Jacaranda Health facility in Kenya is an ideal location to delivering in Nairobi.

Jacaranda Health Hospital has a great team of health professionals in Nairobi who dedicate themselves to giving high quality healthcare to Kenyans at an affordable cost. The Jacaranda Health facility in Nairobi have a great Human Resource Officer and his work is to oversee all recruitment matters including interviews, performance management among others. The Jacaranda Hospital in Kenya have a Director of clinical operations whose work is to oversee all the technology, strategy, health information, innovation and management. Jacaranda health Facility in Nairobi has a vision of becoming the global laboratory for innovation. It strives to incorporate the best protocols and systems. They also strive to provide the quality healthcare needed in Kenya at an affordable price. Jacaranda Health facility in Nairobi milestones are that they have provided maternity health care in Kenya to over 4,000 women. Jacaranda Health facility in Nairobi have impacted over 20,000 family members. Some of their improvements in technology in Jacaranda Health facility in Nairobi are that they have cut down the emergency transport time, ensuring that the emergency cases in Nairobi are well delivered to the referral hospitals within Nairobi on time. Jacaranda Health facility in Nairobi has a culture of giving respectful maternity care. The Jacaranda Health facility in Nairobi clinical guidelines are well stipulated and they are tailored to the cultural backgrounds. This is a great facility for anyone considering a maternity hospital in Nairobi. One can be rest assured that they will get personalized service that is quality in Jacaranda Health facility in Nairobi. Jacaranda Health centre in Kenya has plans to open other branches in other parts of Kenya to give quality and affordable maternity care to women in Kenya.

Lion’s sight first hospital is located in a quiet place in a Nairobi uptown estate called Loresho, the hospital started in the year 2005 as a training center for eye specialists. The institution has managed to produce several surgeons in small incision cataract surgery. Lions sight first eye hospital offers several treatment to the following eye complications; cataract, refractive errors, glaucoma, squint, uveitis, squint, computer vision syndrome, ptosis, pediatric ophthalmology, amblyopia, neuro ophthalmology, orbit, oculoplasty, diabetic retinopathy and low vision.

The cataract condition is mostly caused by age; the patients have an opaque vision which leads to decreased vision. The irregular shape of the lens to bending of light and the vision becomes unclear; the opaque lens cuts the light in total causing blindness. Some aged persons will have their eye proteins affected leading to the eye condition of cataract. There are other causes of this eye complication which include; diabetes, trauma and inflammation.

The patient will notice by having cloudy vision, difficulty in identifying colors, light sensitivity and driving difficulties especially at night and frequent change of spectacles. Cataract condition can only be treated by surgery, the procedure involves injection near the eye followed by an incision to remove the cloudy lens, implantation of a hard plastic lens and a final stage of stitching, it is a walk in walk out treatment, it is painless and chances of infection are very low. You should know that your eyes have cataract when your vision affects your daily activities, the surgery can be done in any season of the year.

Refractive error is an eye condition caused by the eye ball being larger or smaller than the required size or abnormal power of the lens. The condition will lead to light rays being refractive behind or in front of the retina causing blurred vision. People with refractive error will have far sightedness or near sightedness. This eye abnormality causes problems in reading and looking at both far and near objects. Near sightedness people will have a defect in viewing distance and clear vision for near; the patients will try to squeeze their eyes to view distant objects. The eyes will be watery and painful due to burning sensation. The lion’s sight first eye hospital will treat this condition by giving corrective spectacles which will be changed with time due to increase of ball size.

Glaucoma eye disease is accumulation of fluid within the eye, the pressure may increase to a level where the tissues within the eye can be damaged, one of the tissues which is most likely to be damaged is the optic nerve which carries visions to the brain. The condition is caused when the canals graining the eye fluid becomes clogged; sometimes the accumulation of the fluid may increase rapidly leading to blurred vision and pain behind the eye. Factors causing glaucoma are age, near sightedness, family history, injuries to the eye, severe anemia, diabetes and hypertension. The lion’s sight first eye hospital examines the pressure within the eye, the back of the eye and the side vision using computerized equipments.

Squint is a eye condition where by the eyes are misarranged, the eye alignment may be permanent or temporary, squinted eyes look inward, outward, upward and downward. This abnormality is caused by weakened muscles and nerve impulses to the eye. The lion’s sight first eye hospital examines the eye and administers treatment that will straighten the eye. This treatment will require the patient to stay in for two days; the eyes will be bandaged for one day and eye drop medication administered.

Uveitis eye condition is caused by the inflammation of one of the eye layers called uvea. The uvea layer nourishes the eye and when affected it will adversely affect lens, cornea, retina and vitreous. This disease may occur in patients of Tuberculosis, syphilis, leprosy, injury to the eye, virus, fungal and bacterial eye infections.