Tenwek Hospital

   Our time at Tenwek has gone by quickly - we have been here nearly a month and have just a week to go before returning to Michigan!! Here are a few pictures..... not as many "people" or "hospital" pictures as usual because the hospital requires written permission from any patients being photographed and we are not supposed to take pictures of the hospital wards!
   Tenwek is a 300+ bed hospital located in rural western Kenya about 250 kilometers from Nairobi. The service area is 400,000. There are 120,000 outpatient visits and 15,000 inpatient admissions per year along with 8000 surgeries and 2500 deliveries....a very busy place!!! There are residents training in General Surgery, Cardiac Surgery, and Family Medicine as well as Clinical Officers (like our PAs) and Rotating Interns.

...just outside the main entrance

Map with Tenwek's location in western Kenya

Large central courtyard - CT scan and Radiology are shown; the inpatient
wards, emergency room, surgery, administration, and lab modules are nearby.

Susie in the outpatient clinic area.

Teaching rounds.

The medicine ward team that Dave worked with. Common diagnoses
include heart failure (often related to rheumatic fever), hypertension,
diabetes, and HIV sometimes complicated by TB or cryptococcal infection.

Christmas caroling in the hospital!