Patients Benefit As Orthopaedic Specialist Clinics, Surgeries, Double In A Week To Reflect Governor's Commitment To A New Culture In Service Delivery
After the official reinstatement of doctors by His Excellency Governor Joshua Irungu, Nanyuki Teaching and Referral Hospital has reported a the double rise in service delivery of specialist clinics and surgeries.
LHS marked the first occasion where scheduled Orthopaedic surgeries were carried out more than once a week.
In a move that will become the new trend, the patients who visit our service benefit the most from the exceptional skills and expertise available. The service will revolve around a clinical appointment with an individual consultant rather than a group of specialists in one department at a go, which will be followed by surgery or other definitive treatment and follow-up.
There will now be a new Orthopaedic Surgery Clinic on Monday, followed by surgery for eligible patients on Friday. This goes in tandem with another Orthopaedic Surgery Clinic will take place on Thursday followed by surgery the following Monday. The turnaround from Clinic to Surgery will be rapid at this early stage and patients are encouraged to take advantage of this period. As time goes on, however, and as the lists grow, albeit slowly because of the doubling of our output, it may take more time between consultation and surgery.
The entry of the doctors sets Laikipia Health Service on a renewed path to excellence, with Laikipians set to reap the benefits of access to a diverse array of specialist services closer home. This will be replicated across all other specialities that have more than one specialist in the establishment within one hospital.
This new normal will continue our advancement, and we project that the hospital will be able to train specialists within the next five years using a residency model. It will no longer be possible to imagine or be comfortable with the basics of only one specialist per department.
These advancements in service delivery cannot exist in isolation. The County Government has already made significant progress in making each of the hospitals under its keep financially independent for more efficiency.
A gap exists in our current County laws and will be fixed in the next few months so that we establish a revolving Facility Improvement Fund (FIF) that will make our hospitals operate in a similar manner as private hospitals, if not better. This more long-term intervention will bring a lasting change to our hospitals as it saves lives and improves the well-being of our communities.
A new era of Centres of Excellence within the Laikipia Health Service has begun. We promise you the utmost professionalism, quality, and care to the best of our ability today and going ahead.
