Children’s Hospital

When a child gets sick, poverty aggravates it: living in isolation, not having doctors nearby, ignorance about the disease, lack of hygiene and basic care, malnutrition or undernourishment, and scarcity of drinking water.

Since its launch in 2007, the Hospital has undergone several expansions and has become the children’s referral hospital in a district home to some 120,000 people, half of whom are children or minors.

In 2007, only 30% of Lamu’s inhabitants had access to medicine, and children lacked doctors to turn to, with child mortality reaching 11%. Since then, the care, preventive activities, and health education provided by our health team have had an important impact on the child population of Lamu, having significantly reduced the prevalence of diseases and child mortality.

The Hospital has a triage room, a treatment room, two pediatric consulting rooms, two admitting rooms, a pharmacy, and a laboratory. The Vaccination, HIV, Refeeding, and Tuberculosis units allow all malnourished or HIV/Tuberculosis children to be immunized and monitored.

The Hospital provides 8,000 or 9,000 consultations a year in its facilities and visits to towns and villages that do not have medical assistance. Volunteer Spanish doctors and nurses stay at the Hospital, tending to the children and training the Kenyan health personnel.