Magadi Hospital is located at Lake Magadi, some 120 km south-west of Nairobi, where Tata Chemicals Magadi (TCM) has its facility.
The region is semi-arid and sparsely populated with a poor road network. The semi-nomadic Maasai who inhabit the area make what living they can from rearing livestock. The region faces many problems - frequent droughts, poverty, scarcity of clean water, poor sanitation, low literacy rate and poor physical infrastructure. These factors act in concert to present the community with a host of health problems. Further to these problems, HIV/AIDS is now emerging as a new epidemic in the community and demands to be addressed urgently.
Within an 80 km radius from Magadi there are no other hospital facilities; Magadi Hospital therefore has a wide catchment area with a population of about 30,000 people.
In this difficult environment, the 55-bed Magadi Hospital strives to provide much needed comprehensive health care services to both Tata Chemical Magadi employees and the surrounding community. Services offered to the local community are subsidised to the tune of 75 per cent.
Facilities
- Comprehensive staff
- Outpatient services
- Inpatient facilities
The hospital has a full staff of doctors, clinical officers, nurses, ward assistants, lab technologist, and administrative and support people, totaling a team of more than 20.
The outpatient facilities include four consulting rooms, treatment unit, observation ward, maternal and child health unit, family planning unit, pharmacy, dental unit and x-ray unit. The hospital has its own ambulance.
The inpatient facilities include six wards with 55 beds and a fully equipped operating theatre and sterilisation unit.