It is good you are upgrading your health sector it is good for the whole eac, but to claim it is the best is plain retard level reasoning. In Kenya that is a level 5 hospital, Level 6 hospitals in kenya are Kenyatta National Hospital (The University of Nairobi), Kenyatta University Teaching and Referral hospital (Kenyatta University) and Moi University teaching and referral hospital (Moi University). The hospital on display is a level five county hospital in Kenya. Compare and contrast level 5 and level 6.
Benjamin Mkapa Hospital (Opened 2015)
a) Bed capacity is 400
b) It has only 4 ICU beds of which the equipment was donated by israel (Mashav) in late 2019 ie. Your government could not equip the hospital with ICU facilities, you had to rely on donors.
c) The hospital relies on foreign doctors for basic surgeries like kidney transplants which were done by volunteer Irish doctors.
d)
Level 6(Top level hospital in kenya): Kenyatta National Hospital / King George VI Hospital Opened 1901,
a) Bed capacity 3800 ( 3200 public wing and 400 private wing)
b) Currently has 6000 workers
c) ICU (Intensive care unit) beds are 50, to be added to 70
d) HDU (High dependency unit) beds are 10, to be added to 30
e) Provides medical care to 700,000 inpatients annually and 600,000 outpatients annually.
f) Internal revenue yearly Kshs 6.9 billion.
g) In 2019 they marked 15 years of Kidney transplants with over 1000 successful surgeries (Patients spread across east and central africa)
h) Brain and spine surgeries(Neurology department) from 1967 started by Dr. Renato Ruberti (Many have been done since to date)
i) Body part reattachment surgeries have been done for over 7 years ie Reattaching arms, legs that were cut off by accident.
etc, etc etc.... The list is long.
Level 5: Machakos County Government Hospital
a) Bed capacity 410 upgrading on course to 500
b) ICU beds 5, upgrading on course to 12 beds
c) HDU beds none, upgrading on course to 10 beds
d) Fully equipped cancer centre
e) Fully equipped 14 bed dialysis centre
f) Brain and spine surgeries from 2018
g) 2 surgery theatres, plans on course to add 2 more.
etc.......
Level 5 hospitals in kenya have all the things your "best hospital" has and more.I am talking about level 5 because no country in the eac and central africa have a level 6 hospital apart from Kenya. Find below the list of level 5 public hospitals in kenya.
- Thika Level 5 Hospital
- Nyeri Level 5 Hospital
- Nakuru Level 5 Hospital
- Mombasa Level 5 Hospital
- Meru Level 5 Hospital
- Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital
- Machakos Level 5 Hospital
- Kisumu Level 5 Hospital
- Kisii Level 5 Hospital
- Kakamega Level 5 Hospital
- Garissa Level 5 Hospital
- Embu Level 5 Hospital
Note: All private hospitals in Kenya are level 5 and below, there is no level 6 private hospital, and yet they still outperform your "best hospital"
