Webuye County Hospital

28/12/2017

Wishing you and your families a blessed 2018! 🎆

01/04/2017

Chuka County Referral Hospital faces closure

Nation, 31st March 2017
By ALEX NJERU

Chuka County Referral Hospital is facing closure due to a lack of funds, which led to disconnection of water supply and caused food stores to become empty.

The medical facility has not received any funding from the county government of Tharaka Nithi for the past nine months and this has caused suffering among patients.

Three weeks ago, the water supply was disconnected due to an unpaid debt of Sh2.7 million, creating a great risk of disease outbreak at the hospital.

The medical facility is facing a shortage of essentials including food for patients, syringes, bandages and fuel for the only one operational ambulance and other vehicles.

A nurses’ strike, which entered its 55 day on Friday, has paralysed the hospital.

Contacted, the County Executive Committee Member for Health, Magdalene Njeru, said she had borrowed money from other departments to pay for water and buy essentials.

She blamed the situation to delays of disbursement of money by the National Treasury and said the national government had not refunded money for the free maternity program.

“I admit there is problem but we are also waiting for funds from national government,” Ms Njeru said.

She blamed the medical facility’s management for failing to buy basics like food and bandages.
“The hospital has not been operating totally without a coin and I cannot keep visiting every facility to know what is lacking,” she said.

Speaking to the Nation, patients at the hospital said they were being asked to buy almost everything including syringes.
“I had to go back to Chuka town to buy syringe in a private chemist so that I could get treatment,” Mary Kageni, said.

A spot check by the Nation established that most of the departments were not offering services either due to lack of essentials or because of the nurses’ strike.

We established that situation was almost the same in other facilities like Magutuni and Tharaka sub-county hospitals.

24/10/2016

http://www.careerpoint.co.ke/massive-recruitment-in-kenyatta-university-hospital/

Kenyatta University is in the process of opening a new state of the art Hospital - Kenyatta University Hospital (KUH) in line with the University Strategic Plan and the Government Vision 2030 Development Plan. The Hospital aspires to meet the health needs...

31/08/2016

Wonderful team. Selfi after Total abdominal hysterectomy...

Lt to Rt: Leonida Misiko, Winfred Likami, Joseph Khaemba, Dr Moha and Anaesthetist Wilson...

Keep up the good work...

28/08/2016

There was drama at the Webuye county hospital on Saturday when faithful from Temple of God church stormed the facility's mortuary "to resurrect the dead".Five members of the church of more than 200 members told the press that they had been sent by the holy spirit to pray for the sick, heal them and…

12/08/2016

A total of five boys are nursing injuries at hospitals in Vihiga and Bungoma counties after their circumcision.

Three are at the Webuye District Hospital, Bungoma...

It is alleged the circumciser performed the procedure wrongly, which saw one of the boys losing part of his private organ.

28/06/2016

The first operation in the New Maternity theatre at Webuye County hospital...

04/01/2016

Happy new year and a prosperous 2016! May you be blessed in all that you do :-)

20/09/2015

Breaking news;
The cruel, merciless and unforgiving hand of DEATH has once again robbed Our Dear colleague Nurse-Tutor Ann Olienyi of Webuye-Kenya Medical Training College formally a nurse at Webuye County hospital...

She passed on today morning 20th September 2015 while undergoing treatment at St. Lukes hospital Eldoret following a CVA-Stroke...

May the Almighty God give solace to the entire family, nursing fraternity, teaching fraternity, students and friends...during this sad moments.

RIP Dear Ann...

18/09/2015

Care for cancer patients is a right.
http://www.filmfest.health-rights.org/item/24-cancer-is-not-beyond-us-commemorating-world-cancer-day-2015

Cancer is the third leading cause of death in Kenya with tens of thousands of new cases diagnosed each year. Organizations like the Kenya Hospices and Pallia...

08/07/2015

Some information about the hospital's history...albeit outdated in some areas
http://www.zakenya.com/education/webuye-distict-hospital-in-bungoma-county.html

Webuye District hospital was started in 1990 through funding from The East African Development Bank with support from the Chinese government Una program that targeted a number of places such as webuye. It begun as a dispensary in 1992. In the late \'90s, it was made a district hospital and has si

24/04/2015

Alumni..

Members of the public cautioned after food poisoning incident in Murang'a http://ow.ly/M2tvl