Uhuru Opens a 350-Bed Level Four Hospital in Nairobi’s Korogocho Slums

President Kenyatta on Friday presided over the opening of a new level-four hospital in Nairobi’s Korogocho slums.

The four-storey 350-bed facility named Mama Margaret Kenyatta Children’s Hospital was constructed by the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS). It is one of the 24 health facilities that President Kenyatta directed NMS director-general Lt. General Mohamed Badi to build in Nairobi informal settlements.

The new facility will provide out-patient, in-patient, maternity, diagnostics, special clinics, intensive care unit services, dialysis, mortuary, accident, and emergency services.

Speaking during the launch, President Kenyatta cited the newly-built hospital as an example of the developments that can be achieved if all leaders worked together for the country’s common good. He cited national unity and peace as the most important ingredients for the country’s progress.

“If all of us, as leaders, join hands and concentrate on working together, we will succeed in transforming the lives of Kenyans. A good example is this hospital project that had stalled for close to 30 years but we managed to finish it when the national and county governments together with other leaders joined hands to ensure its completion,” the president said.

Kenyatta indicated that 18 out of the 24 health facilities being built by NMS are complete and have served over four million residents of informal settlements in Nairobi.

“This shows that the efforts we have put in improving public hospitals are bearing fruit,” he added.

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said the opening of the hospital is a culmination of the president’s directive to take quality health services closer to citizens through the Universal Health Coverage (UHC).