Shikunga hospital

The Shikunga Community Hospital operates out of Shikunga, an isolated rural village in Kenya’s Western Province.

This province has the second largest population and is the poorest province in Kenya. Our hospital is the only non-government hospital in the entire province and such it services over 40,000people. The staff at the hospital are all Kenyan born with qualifications accredited by the Kenyan government.

The hospital is open seven days per week and provides adult and paediatric primary health care services, obstetric care, inpatient care, antenatal care and has basic laboratory facilities.

As most people that live around the hospital live on less than $1 per day, the costs of even basic healthcare is prohibitive, resulting in many getting turned away even if they’re suffering from a life threatening disease. Because of these financial constraints on the local population we have adopted a low cost approach that allows those attending the clinic to pay either the full cost of consultation or a settled on amount that takes into account their individual financial status.

Kenya Aid also provides free health care to all children that have been born at the hospital until they are at least five years of age. This services to encourage pregnant mothers to use the local facility to birth their child, and also ensures ongoing health care for children born in the area.