Enhancing Healthcare For People
At LHS Nyahururu, quality health care for all is a priority to the services clients get. It includes the full range of essential health services, from health promotion to prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliative care.
All the factors required for improving the health status of the population are integrated at the community level. For all these efforts to be fruitful, there is a need for advanced infrastructure, enough staffing, and an increase in the number of specialists. These medical staff provides both primary and secondary care.
Recently, it received dialysis machines and beds that will go a long way to give Laikipians quality and efficient dialysis services. There is also an upcoming Mother Child Health (MCH) unit that caters to mothers and newborns.
Primary care is the initial level of contact when you have a healthcare problem and it sees to your basic health needs. It involves the treatment of minor illness or injury, the management of chronic conditions, the screening for common health conditions, and the prescription of medicine. The staff in this cadre include general practitioners, medical officers, clinical officers, and nurses.
Secondary care, on the other hand, manages health problems that cannot be dealt with in primary care because it needs more specialized knowledge, skill, and equipment than what primary care can give.
