Rehabilitation and Equipping of the Kenyatta National Hospital

FOMENTO, together with the Spanish company Expansión Exterior, jointly defined the project scope, supply, installation and commissioning, technical guarantee services, training and maintenance of hospital medical equipment for emergency, trauma, radiology and cardiology units at the hospital, as well as the provision of IT equipment and furniture for the administrative and pharmacy areas.

The Kenyatta National Hospital was built to fulfill the role of being a National Referral and Teaching Hospital, as well as to provide medical research environment. It covers an area of 45.7 hectares and this complex houses the Faculty of Health Sciences of the University of Nairobi, the Kenya Medical Training College, the Kenya Medical Research Institute and the National Laboratory Service of the Ministry of Health. On average, the hospital cares for more than 80,000 inpatients and more than 500,000 outpatients a year.