Kenyatta National Hospital to Stop Accepting Walk-In Patients Starting in July
Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) will stop accepting walk-in patients starting July this year.
Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) Director-General Mohamed Badi says the move is part of the government’s efforts to decongest KNH, which is the largest referral health hospital in the country. This will allow the hospital to concentrate on referral cases only, Badi said.
Badi noted that the same policy will be implemented in other referral hospitals across the country to allow them 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,” Badi said on Wednesday.
NMS looks to have 24 new Level 2 and 3 hospitals fully operational in Nairobi ahead of the July deadline.
The construction of the facilities is being done at a cost of Sh2 billion across all the sub-counties in Nairobi.
When complete, they will increase the city’s bed capacity and reduce the need for patients to rush to KNH for minor treatments.
President Kenyatta has already commissioned four of the hospitals, with six more expected to be opened in the coming week.
“We are working hard to ensure that all the hospitals in informal settlements and disadvantaged areas are completed by the first of June and are operational by the end of June because the deadline for closure of KNH to walk-in patients is the first week of July,” added Mbadi.
In addition, Mama Lucy Hospital will be upgraded to a Level 5 facility while Mbagathi Hospital will be revamped as part of the plan to decongest KNH.
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We know most illnesses are…
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We know most illnesses are societal issues. When we cleanse the land off the evils, most of these strange diseases will disappear. Time to turn back to our God. The power is in our African cultures.
We have a choice, to build more hospitals or to cleanse historical evils.
We should not fill our beautiful country with concrete in the name of building hospitals.
What?? The 3 star general…
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What?? The 3 star general ordered wananchi not to go to hsopitalo they paid taxes for last 5 decades since 1963?
The nation is going down the toilet. First, they squeeze out the daktari and nurse pay, then they steal the meds and vaccines, now they making KNH a "teaching" and "referral" specialty only place to double loot from the future tax and student drs.
This is a public hospital…
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This is a public hospital.
UJINGA tutawacha lini?
I've said it before....
The minute we involved money, everything else goes through the window.
“We are working hard to…
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“We are working hard to ensure that all the hospitals in informal settlements and disadvantaged areas are completed by the first of June and are operational by the end of June because the deadline for closure of KNH to walk-in patients is the first week of July,” added Mbadi.
In other words, there are no existing hospitals for the kibera, majengo, mathare or kawangware peasants to go to now.
Man, the nation is truly fucced if this goes as planned. Mbadi didnt even bother to name these phantom hospitals to be constructed by June 1st. Oh wait, thats 2 weeks away. So even if you wanted to believe them, it would mean that they will be done constructing said unidentified hospital, equip it and staff it and have everything operational in 1 month tops. Sorry I meant multiple govt hospitals (his words). Maybe this was a warning to wananchi telling them you are going to be fucced as of July 1st, so jipange.
no emergency room? ama that…
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no emergency room? ama that's separate?
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