Coast General Teaching and Referral Hospital / ScreengrabCoast General Teaching and Referral Hospital has announced a temporary closure of its main entrance.
The move will help to facilitate CGTRH's scheduled renovations.
The Hospital said that during the renovation phase, some areas, including the new registration, activation and cash point areas, will be available.
Others include the booking area, the reproductive centre, the casualty/ OPD area and the Dental unit.
Patients have been advised to use the casualty gate to access the hospital.
“Renovations are anticipated to be finished in around three months, with an effective date of commencement of Wednesday, July 23, 2025.”
Coast Province General is the second largest public hospital in Kenya after Kenyatta National Hospital, with a 700-bed capacity.
It presently has 672 beds, comprising 546 beds and 126 cots. The Hospital has the Chief Administrator as the CEO, answerable to the Hospital Management Board, the Hospital said on its website.
CGTRH has undergone a major overhaul and facelift in both infrastructure and service delivery.
It boasts of a newly constructed inpatient toilets and showers block, renovation and expansion of the Mortuary with new refrigeration units, and a standby power generator.
"A vast amount of sophisticated patient care equipment for surgical theaters, anesthesia, anesthesia recovery, central sterilisation (CSSD), casualty services, Intensive Care Unit, patient wards, laboratory, x-ray, ENT unit, eye unit and dental unit," the Hospital said.
Some of the services offered are a comprehensive care clinic, an accidents and emergency centre, a laparoscopic surgical centre, a diabetes centre of excellence, dental services and Maxillo Facial.
Others are ICU and HDU Units, 24hrs Laboratory Services and Neuro Surgery and other specialised surgeries.
