• Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital recorded the highest decline in revenue by collecting Sh42.2 million against a target of Sh120 million.
• Pumwani Maternity Hospital collected Sh4.4 million against a target of Sh7 million .
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Lack of equipment and inadequate facilitation has seen Nairobi's top four hospitals record a decline in revenue of Sh106.8 million in the last Financial Year 2020-2021.
This was a decrease of Sh88 million as compared to FY 2019-20 where Sh192.8 million was collected from Pumwani Maternity, Mama Lucy, Mutuini and Mbagathi hospitals.
The revelation is contained in the Nairobi County Annual Development Plan for financial year ending June 30, 2023.
“These are funds collected from from various departments within the hospitals and from the Facility Improvement Funds (FIF), “ reads the plan.
Pumwani Maternity Hospital collected Sh4.4 million against a target of Sh7 million.
This was also huge decrease of Sh3.8 million when compared to the FY 2019/20 where Sh8.2 million was collected.
However, the maternity facility surpassed its target that year by Sh1.7 where Sh8.2 million was collected against Sh6.5 million.
Among the four hospitals, Mutuini Hospital also recorded a decline in revenue by collecting Sh494,699 against a target of Sh3.8 million.
The facility manage to collect Sh2.2 million in FY 2019-20 against a target of Sh3.5 million.
Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital recorded the highest decline in revenue by collecting Sh42.2 million against a target of Sh120 million.
In FY 2019-20 Sh111.2 million was collected against Sh118 million, a difference of Sh6.8 million
Mbagathi Hospital missed its target by Sh2 million where in the just ended financial year Sh60 million was collected .
This was however an increase of Sh20 million from the FY 2019 20 where Sh40 million was collected .
The hospital however had failed to meet its target of Sh59.5 million
NMS Director of Health Services Dr. Ouma Oluga Tuesday explained that last year Mbagathi nearly closed to be converted to Covid-19 isolation centre
He noted that the Outpatient Unit nearly came to a halt for several months as the public feared contracting the virus.
“When Covid-19 hit the city, the completed maternity wing was converted to an isolation centre and remember Covid patients consume the same medicines as other patients. Nearly the whole hospital was closed,” he said.
However, three of the hospitals except Pumwani are set to benefit from the ongoing health expansion programme by the Nairobi Metropolitan Services.
The programme which started in August is aimed at improving health centres in the county.
As part of the programme, NMS headed by Director General Lieutenant General Mohamed Badi is setting up a four –storey building in Mutuini Hospital in Dagoretti that will have a 150-bed capacity.
At the same time an additional block with an 80-bed capacity is also being set up at Mbagathi Hospital.
"We have invested so much in Mbagathi and the hospital is at its highest ever collection since independence, " Oluga noted.
Both Mutuini and Mbagathi are Level Four hospitals.
Mama Lucy Hospital which serves more than 2.1 million residents in Eastlands will also be upgraded to a Level Five facility.
A Level 5 health facility, is also known as county referral hospital, should have more than 100-bed capacity.
They are run by chief executive officers who must be medical doctors.
Such facilities handle more than 250 patients daily and have capacity to manage medical, paediatric, surgical and gynaecological in-patients.
Besides a medical superintendent, Level 5 hospitals should have at least 15 medical officers, seven anesthesiologists, two cardiologists, four general surgeons and two orthopaedic surgeons.
Another requirement is that it should employ at least 90 clinical officers, 118 nurses with specialists spread across different departments, 11 pharmacists and 10 pharmaceutical technologists.
Edited by D Tarus