The Nairobi Hospital

It is located on Argwings Kodhek Road, in the neighborhood of Upper Hill, in Kenya's capital city of Nairobi.[2] The hospital is located approximately 4.5 kilometres (3 mi) west of Kenyatta International Conference Centre.[3] The coordinates of the hospital are 01°17'46.0"S, 36°48'17.0"E (Latitude:-1.296115; Longitude:36.804718).[4]

The institution was officially opened on 9 April 1954, as an exclusively European Hospital, in Kenya, which was then a colony of the United Kingdom. On 19 October 1961, it began serving non-Europeans and the name was changed to The Nairobi Hospital.[5]

In August 2016, Kenyan print media reported that the hospital planned expanding its physical infrastructure, its staffing levels and its bed capacity. The planned expansion, budgeted at KSh5.7 billion (approx. US$57.2 million), includes the following:[1]

1. Increase bed capacity from 355 to 750
2. Building of a 14-storey hospital skyscraper, to house inpatient and outpatient departments, a diagnostic centre, operating rooms, an intensive care unit, a specialist kidney department, and a specialised kidney and bladder surgery unit.
3. Construction of a six-story parking lot, 1,021 parking bays
4. Establishment of a water purification plant, capable of processing 45 cubic metres (1,589 cu ft) per hour
5. Construction of a nine-storey office block with specialised medical services
6. Erection of an eight-storey doctors’ plaza
7. Building of a 14-storey centre of excellence
8. Construction of an eight-storey university education block.

• List of hospitals in Kenya
• Borna Nyaoke-Anoke, physician and medical researcher

• Official website