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PROGRAM IN
KIKUYU
- The Hospital
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- Presbyterian Church East Africa
(PCEA) Kikuyu Hospital had its beginnings in 1908 when
Scottish missionaries founded a center to teach boys to
read and write, a Bible teaching center and a first aid
center which has grown into the PCEA Kikuyu Hospital.
Located about 15 miles for the center of Nairobi and no
more than a mile from the town of Kikuyu proper, the PCEA
hospital serves patients from the surrounding semirural
area, from the city of Nairobi, and from many other parts
of Kenya and neighboring countries. The hospital features
an outpatient clinic and six inpatient wards: male,
female, maternity, orthopedic, pediatric and eye.
Laboratory, pharmacy, X-ray unit, a large new theatre
with three operating rooms are among the offerings at the
hospital. A separate ophthalmic theater is available.
Speciality care is offered through several clinics
including diabetic, dermatological, infertility and
rehabilitation and orthopedic surgery. A community based
health care program and an internationally recognized eye
unit operate from PCEA Kikuyu Hospital.
- The PCEA Kikuyu Hospital has in
excess of 120 general beds and 75 eye unit beds.
Currently, there are two orthopedic surgeons, one general
surgeon, three ophthalmic surgeons, five clinical
officers (including CO/anaesthetists), a dermatologist, a
highly qualified pharmacy and laboratory staff, six
opticians/ophthalmic assistants, two physical therapists,
two orthopedic technicians, a radiographer, and over 70
qualified nurses. Additional missionary and volunteer
doctors and surgeons augment the medical staff on a
regular basis. The most recent available data indicate
that the hospital performed over 3,300 eye operations,
1,000 major operations (mostly orthopedic) and another
3,000 minor general operations. Two thousand infants were
safely delivered and 11,000 children were immunized. The
general hospital saw and treated 40,000 outpatients,
while the Eye Unit treated 60,000 outpatients at the
hospital and 16,000 outpatients on mobile eye
safaris.
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