Arrow Web Hospital is a community hospital in the Kayole-Soweto region of the Nairobi slums in Kenya, East Africa. You can visit our website at http://www.ArrowwebHospital.org

Aid to Hospitals Worldwide in the UK has refurbished medical equipment available to send to our hospital. We are raising funds to pay for shipping of the container from the UK to Kenya, and for transport from Mombasa port to Arrow Web Hospital.

About Arrow Web Hospital

We focus on providing primary care, HIV/AIDS mitigation, family planning, ante-natal care and prevention of mother-to-child transmission. The hospital provides medical in and outpatient care, laboratory services, and an urgent care centre. The hospital has registered more than 34,000 total patients to date. The hospital treats approximately 250 patients per week. Arrow Web Hospital is accredited by the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) and accepts NHIF cards. Our main purpose is to improve the lives of countless suffering people in the slums of Kayole-Soweto.

Arrow Kenya, a registered non-profit making organization, opened Arrow Web Hospital in February of 2005 as a clinic located in a 2-room house. We began with 3 staff members - a nurse, a laboratory technician and receptionist. We operated in this 2-room home until November of 2006. By this time, the community demand for our services was very high. We had registered more than 5,000 patients.

Our seven-member Board of Managers called a meeting to discuss next steps and decided to hold a community fundraiser to raise the money required to rent a bigger building and accommodate more patients. This event was successful and we were able to rent a bigger building, an 11-room house, as well as purchase emergency equipment. With a bigger building, patients began coming to the hospital in greater numbers. Once we were settled in the new building, we were able to begin operating as a full hospital with both in and outpatient services. The Kenyan Medical and Dentist Board recommended Arrow Web Hospital and provided us with our current operating license. We now operate out of a 19-room house and now have over 14 paid staff.

The Kayole-Soweto Villages in the Embakasi division around Nairobi have an estimated population of more than 798,000. The majority of people living here earn less than a dollar a day.

 

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