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Map of Kenya showing former Provinces before 2013. This is a list of hospitals in Kenya by former provinces and county. There are 57 public hospitals, including seven national referral hospitals, 47 county referral hospitals, and two sub-county hospitals. There are 103 private hospitals, 58 mission hospitals, and 12 NGO hospitals in Kenya.
Kenya has 47 counties, each with at least one county referral, or teaching and referral hospital which is the referral point for the district hospitals. These are regional centres which provide specialised care including intensive care and life support and specialist consultations.
The referral hospital receives referrals for specialised medical care and diagnostic services from throughout Kenya and surrounding African countries. [5] Founded by missionaries, the hospital provides a broad range of secondary and tertiary care, including diagnosis of disease and team management of patient care. [6] [7]
The hospital was started during World War I to care for wounded. It served as a district hospital for many years. It was upgraded to a Level 5 hospital in 2007 and to a Level 6 hospital in 2014. The hospital is partnered with the Kisii University School of Medicine. [1] [3]
The Kenyatta National Hospital is the oldest hospital in Kenya. It is a public, tertiary, referral hospital for the Ministry of Health. It is also the teaching hospital of the University of Nairobi College of Health Sciences. It is the largest hospital in the country and East Africa as well. [1]
World Trade Centre Hospital (WTCH), is a planned private medical facility in Kenya.The owners of this medical facility are members of the family of Suresh Bhagwanji Raja Shah, the founder of I&M Holdings Limited, a financial services conglomerate based in Kenya, with subsidiaries in Kenya, Mauritius, Tanzania, Rwanda, Uganda and an office in the United Kingdom.
Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital was founded in 1917 and operated as a district hospital before attaining referral status in 1988. [1] The hospital governs the Shoe4Africa Children's Hospital, a 200-bed fully serviced paediatric teaching hospital that is built within its grounds and is the only public children's hospital in East Africa.
Hospitals in Kenya Established in 1952, the Aga Khan Hospital in Kisumu is a 76-bed acute care facility. The hospital provides general medicine services, specialist clinics and high-tech diagnostic services and has an emergency Casualty Department.