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Location Upper Hill, Nairobi, Kenya Hospital type General Medical Services Address Argwings Kodhek Rd, Nairobi, Kenya Hours Open today · Open 24 hoursWednesdayOpen 24 hoursThursdayOpen 24 hoursFridayOpen 24 hoursSaturdayOpen 24 hoursSundayOpen 24 hoursMondayOpen 24 hoursTuesdayOpen 24 hoursSuggest an edit Beds 355+ (2016); 750 (Planned) Care system National Hospital Insurance Fund Profiles | ||
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The Nairobi Hospital is a private hospital in Nairobi, Kenya.
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Location
It is located on Argwings Kodhek Road, in the neighborhood of Upper Hill, in Kenya's capital city of Nairobi. The hospital is located approximately 4.5 kilometres (3 mi) west of Kenyatta International Conference Centre. The coordinates of the hospital are 01°17'46.0"S, 36°48'17.0"E (Latitude:-1.296115; Longitude:36.804718).
Overview
The institution was officially opened on 9 April 1954, as an exclusively European Hospital, in Kenya, which was the a colony of the United Kingdom. On 19 October 1961, it began serving non-Europeans and the name was changed to The Nairobi Hospital.
Expansion
In August 2016, Kenyan print media reported that the hospital planned expanding its physical infrastructure, its staffing levels and its bed capacity. The planned expansion, budgeted at KSh5.7 billion (approx. US$57.2 million), includes the following:
- Increase bed capacity from 355 to 750
- Building of a 14-storey hospital skyscraper, to house inpatient and outpatient departments, a diagnostic centre, operating rooms, an intensive care unit, a specialist kidney department, and a specialised kidney and bladder surgery unit.
- Construction of a six-story parking lot, 1,021 parking bays
- Establishment of a water purification plant, capable of processing 45 cubic metres (1,589 cu ft) per hour
- Construction of a nine-storey office block with specialised medical services
- Erection of an eight-storey doctors’ plaza
- Building of a 14-storey centre of excellence
- Construction of an eight-storey university education block.