Hospital & Region

The Hospital has 95 staff, which includes 2 Doctors, 3 Clinical Officers, 28 Qualified Nurses and 22 Ward Attendants. There is a Pharmacist and a Radiographer as well as support staff.

The Hospital has 171 beds and has Female, Maternity, Children, Male and Isolation Wards. There is a busy out-patient department, and a Major & Minor theatre. In addition there is X-Ray, Ultrasound and a Laboratory. There is also an 'Out reach team' which concentrates on education in the far rural areas.

In addition the Hospital provides a number of Mobile Clinics to the smaller isolated areas on a regular basis. Recently we have added an HIV / AIDS team to assist the community programme. This team concentrates particularly on education and behaviour change within schools and communities.

The catchment population is in the region of 300,000 people. It is a rural area and the mainstay of the families is farming. The people are from the Luhya tribe who were traditionally nomadic pastoralists. Kenya is a vast country with numerous problems, corruption is common and employment is almost impossible, as always in situations like this it is the poor who suffer most.

Patients resting under a mango tree - July 2002
Rain water collects in the tank behind them.
Nurse Assistant - Foreground - Leah Limiyn