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Gertrude’s Hospital Foundation, Kenya, in partnership with M-PESA Foundation, Safaricom PLC, Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital and the County Governments of Samburu, Baringo, Lamu and Homabay, launched the Daktari Smart telemedicine program on Wednesday 17th November 2021.

Why Us

Gertrude’s Hospital Foundation, with support from the M-PESA Foundation, is working with the above partners to improve access to quality specialist care to children in these counties in Kenya by leveraging the use of technology.
The Daktari Smart program will help reduce the number of referrals of sick children and optimize the capacity and reach of healthcare delivery systems by allowing level IV and V hospitals have access to specialists. During the first phase, the project will provide free specialist care and treatment to 32,400 children located in Samburu, Baringo, Lamu and Homabay counties and their environs via telemedicine. In addition, the telemedicine platform will be used to improve capacity of 300 health workers to correctly diagnose and treat sick children, as well as correctly link children who require advanced care.

According to the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board, the doctor to patient ratio currently stands at about one doctor for every 6,355 people which leads to difficulties in getting access to a qualified medical professional. This ratio increases when it comes to specialists. The participating counties in this program have only one or no paediatrician to treat children in these areas.
A total of KES 200 million will be spend in the next 3 years of the initiative.

Admission & Eligibility

At Gertrude’s Hospital, a children’s facility, only patients who are below 18 years old are eligible for admission as inpatients. Admission is only based on a child’s medical needs at the time they are being admitted.

Once admitted, the patients are placed under the care of an appropriate and experienced private consultant.

Casualty

This admission follows the normal procedure whereby a patient comes to Gertrude’s Hospital as an outpatient case and the doctor feels that it will be in the best interest of the patient’s health to be admitted for further treatment and observation.

Satellite Clinics

This admission almost follows the normal procedure whereby a patient comes to Gertrude’s Hospital as an outpatient case. But in this case, the patients visits one of the Gertrude’s Hospital’s Satellite Clinics and the doctor from the clinic feels that it will be in the best interest of the patient’s health to be admitted for further treatment and observation.

The patient is referred to the satellite clinic and transport is organised to take the patient to Gertrude’s Main Hospital. A bed is prepared to make the admission smooth.

Emergency

This admission does not follow the normal procedure in an Emergency case and the patient is very serious and doctor feels that it will be in the best interest of the patient’s health to be admitted for further treatment and observation, the patient is admitted directly to the ward or ICU depending on the status of the patient.

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