The Nairobi Hospital is a private hospital located in upperhill area,
Nairobi
Nairobi ( ) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The name is derived from the Maasai phrase ''Enkare Nairobi'', which translates to "place of cool waters", a reference to the Nairobi River which flows through the city. The city proper h ...
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Kenya
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.The hospital was founded in 1954 as a European hospital.
Location
It is located along Argwings Kodhek Road, Upper Hill, Nairobi. The hospital is located approximately west of
Kenyatta International Conference Centre
The Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC), formerly the Kenyatta International Conference Centre, is a 28-story building located in Nairobi, Kenya. The KICC is located in the City Square of Nairobi, and is a crucial address for a numb ...
. The coordinates of the hospital are 01°17'46.0"S, 36°48'17.0"E (Latitude:-1.296115; Longitude:36.804718).
Overview
The institution was officially opened on 9 April 1954, as an exclusively ''European Hospital'', in Kenya, which was then a
colony
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of the
United Kingdom
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. On 19 October 1961, it began serving non-Europeans and the name was changed to ''The Nairobi Hospital''.
Expansion
In August 2016, The hospital implemented expansion of its physical infrastructure, staffing levels, and bed capacity. The planned expansion includes the following:
# Increase bed capacity from 355 to 750
#Erecting of a 14-storey building, to house inpatient and outpatient departments, a diagnostic centre, operating rooms, an
intensive care unit
220px, Intensive care unit
An intensive care unit (ICU), also known as an intensive therapy unit or intensive treatment unit (ITU) or critical care unit (CCU), is a special department of a hospital or health care facility that provides intensi ...
, a specialist kidney department, and a specialised kidney and bladder surgery unit.
# Construction of a office block with specialised medical services
# Erection of doctors' plaza
See also
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List of hospitals in Kenya
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 mi ...
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Borna Nyaoke-Anoke
Borna Nyaoke is a Kenyan physician and clinical researcher, who took over as Head of Mycetoma Research in 2023 from her previous position as Manager of Clinical Trials at Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative/ Global Antibiotic Research and D ...
, physician and medical researcher
References
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Hospitals established in 1954
Hospitals in Nairobi
1954 establishments in Kenya