Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) Director-General Mohamed Badi has announced changes in the city's health system that will see Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) close its doors to walk-in patients.
In a statement Wednesday, Badi said the country’s biggest referral hospital will no longer serve
New Mathare hospital set to open doors July
Friday May 14 2021
By COLLINS OMULO
Summary
The Sh400 newly-refurbished Mathare-Korogocho Hospital will begin admitting patients in July, Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) Director General Mohamed Badi has said.
Mr Badi said work at the health facility is 90 percent complete and they are only awaiting medical equipment from the Ministry of Health before the hospital is commissioned.
The Sh400 newly-refurbished Mathare-Korogocho Hospital will begin admitting patients in July, Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) Director General Mohamed Badi has said.
Mr Badi said work at the health facility is 90 percent complete and they are only awaiting medical equipment from the Ministry of Health before the hospital is commissioned.
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KNH to serve referral patients only from July
Wednesday May 12 2021
By COLLINS OMULO
Top referral Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) will close its doors to walk-in patients starting this July as part of decongestion of the facility, Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) Director-General Mohamed Badi has said.
The new development, he said, will allow the country’s biggest hospital to concentrate on referral cases only.
The NMS boss said the move is part of a wider plan by the Ministry of Health to have referral hospitals across the country serve what they have been specifically established for.
“In conjunction with the Ministry of Health, we have been able to produce a policy document on referral system in Kenya. Nairobi County will be used as a guinea pig as the first county to implement this strategy to ensure that KNH becomes a teaching and referral hospital only,” said Maj-Gen Badi on Wednesday.
Nairobi County Allocated 72,000 Covid-19 Vaccine Doses
Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) Director-General Mohamed Badi says the Capital city has received 72,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine.
Badi spoke Tuesday during the launch of the Coronavirus vaccination exercise across the county in a ceremony held at the Mutuini Hospital in Dagoretti.
The NMS boss noted Nairobi has recorded the highest number of Covid-19 cases and deaths since the onset of the pandemic.
“Nairobi accounts for 44 percent of all the cases recorded and has registered 681 deaths so far and therefore we are planning to move with speed to ensure that all the healthcare workers are vaccinated and in phase two we move to the vulnerable and those living with underlying conditions,” Badi said.