The electric carts will primarily assist elderly patients, children, persons with disabilities and others who have difficulty walking between departments, clinics and other areas of the hospital.

International specialists, including experts from New York, are working alongside JOOTRH clinicians during the current camp, with representatives of medical technology company Medtronic also participating.

Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital (JOOTRH) is expanding its specialist services and positioning itself to provide increasingly complex care closer to home.

By KPC Reporter Agness Atieno cradles her newborn, nicknamed ‘Baby Miracle,’ with disbelief and deep gratitude. In her arms is a child who defied biology—surviving an abdominal ectopic pregnancy, a rare and life-threatening condition where a foetus develops outside the uterus. For eight months, the baby grew among Atieno’s internal organs rather than within the […]

By KPC Reporter Women with high-risk pregnancies in Western Kenya now have local access to specialised care following the return of a foetal medicine specialist to Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital (JOOTRH). The milestone follows the rejoining of Dr Muruka Kays at the facility after two years of advanced training in Maternal–Foetal Medicine. […]

By KPC Reporter The Ministry of Health has made significant leadership changes at two of the country’s premier referral hospitals, aiming to bolster governance, clinical, and administrative systems. This, according to Cabinet Secretary (CS) Aden Duale is in line with its Bottom-Up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA). Dr. Richard Lesiyampe Leserian has been transferred to serve […]