Thursday, April 2, 2009

Tour of St. Mary's Mission Hospital - Rift Valley Part 1

St. Mary's Mission Hospital on the edge of Lake Elementaita in Rift Valley opened in late 2007 as a sister hospital to the original St. Mary's in Nairobi. In addition to extensive outpatient services, the hospital has a men's, women's, and children's ward for inpatients and facilities for basic radiology and surgery. Employees including physicians live on-site and all share ownership of the venture. Patients come from all over Rift Valley Province, are sometimes transferred from the Provincial Hospital in Nakuru, and are often brought emergently after frequent motor vehicle accidents on the neighboring highway. A cost-efficient, Kenyan-own and Kenyan-run hospital, St. Mary's is the new model of financially-viable, high quality healthcare in East Africa.

We recorded a walking tour of the complex from the front entrance to the guesthouse in the back.


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  1. Are there any contact details of the hospital?

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