Tumutumu Hospital, owned by the Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA) is one of the oldest mission hospitals in Kenya. It is in the Central Highlands of Kenya, about 80 miles north of Nairobi, between the Aberdares Range and Mount Kenya.
The hospital serves a population of over 750,000, spread across the rural Nyeri County. The facilities include general medical care, pediatric and maternity wards, operating theater, and outpatient department. Clinics offered by the hospital include Orthopedic, Diabetic, Renal / Dialysis, TB, and Pediatric.
MBF’s donor partners helped the hospital at Tumutumu and other facilities have sufficient PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Support is needed on an on-going basis until enough vaccines arrive. As the hospital leaders have said: “Our daily life operations have ceased being normal. Everyone from the frontline workers to back-office workers, there is a lot of anxiety to say the least. We face sub-standard PPEs in the market, lack of budget or facility for an isolation room. Our thanks to MBF donors for the PPE to help us in this unprecedented time”.
MBF donors also helped provide the hospital with a much-needed Renal Dialysis Center in 2017 and a new Intensive Care Unit and Imaging Center in 2020. The nearby PCEA Tumutumu Hospital Training College is accredited by the Nursing Council of Kenya.
New Mom with one day old baby in Tumutumu Hospital’s maternity ward.
Equipment and supplies delivered to the hospital.
At only eight weeks old, Sasha’s future just got a little brighter. A pre-paid Rotavirus Vaccine, offered at Tumutumu Hospital in Kenya, significantly lowers Sasha’s risk of illness and death from the diarrheal ailments caused by rotaviruses. These highly contagious and resistant diseases claim an estimated 453,000 lives among infants and young children around the globe, per year. Most of these victims are in developing countries, and another two million are hospitalized regardless of water quality or sanitization available to them. That is why the World Health Organization has recommended this vaccine for all children.
Patient receiving renal dialysis treatment.
Nurse reads Christmas card from MBF donor partners thanking her for all of her hard work.
