What services can you expect to get at the Coast Provincial General Hospital in Makadara?

Well, the Coast Provincial Hospital, which is otherwise known as the Makadara hospital is the biggest public hospital in the entire Kenyan coast region. It is not uncommon to find patients coming from as far away as Lamu, Tana River and Taita Taveta to seek services at the Coast Provincial Hospital. And that is of course on top of the patients from Mombasa, Kwale and Kilifi counties that are nearer.

At the best of times, the coast provincial hospital in Mombasa has the whole range of services you would expect in a serious referral hospital in the world, though there is often a great deal of congestion. The services offered there seem to fall into two broad categories, namely inpatient and outpatient. The hospital building looks like a fort, and within it are numerous clinics, theaters and wards to serve the needs of the thousands of people who seek services there on a day to day basis.

The coast provincial hospital at Mombasa has decent labs (especially for the basic diagnostic tests), a reasonably well equipped ENT clinic, dental clinics, psychiatric clinics, TB clinics, CCC for HIV/AIDS, maternity facilities including theaters for caesarian sections, pediatric clinics, diabetes clinics, dialysis facilities, radiology including X-ray and CT-Scan facilities… and pretty much every other type of service you would expect in a high level referral hospital. There was even a time when I read that the Mombasa county government had retained the services of a neurologist and stationed him at the CPGH. What I think still needs to be developed is a radiotherapy and chemotherapy unit for cancer patients, so that they don’t have to travel all the way to Kenyatta National Hospital where there is often a great deal of congestion. 
Adjacent to the Mombasa Coast Provincial Hospital is the Mombasa campus of the Kenya Medical Training College, with most of its students getting their practical exposure within the hospital.