CORPORATE SCENE
The Nairobi Hospital
Convention Centre
CONVENTION CENTRE
By Pauline Mwatu
T
he Nairobi Hospital has
recently launched a state
of art convention centre,
The Nairobi Hospital Convention
Centre, entering a new window
as a key player in the industry’s
MICE sector. Marketing Africa
crew had a one on one session with
the Hospitals CEO, Mr. Gordon
Odundo, on the new kid on the
block among other pursuits and
brings you an abridged version of
the deliberations as captured here-
under.
Marketing Africa: To start us off, I want
you to take us through a brief history of
The Nairobi Hospital, tell us where you
are coming from, where you are right now,
and the plans in the pipeline for the future.
Gordon: Thank you for the question
and for lending us the opportunity to
share our story on the Marketing Africa
magazine platform. The Nairobi Hospital
as you know was founded just about a
decade before Kenya’s independence and
primarily it was a Hospital for Europeans
only and of course after independence all
that changed. The Hospital has its roots
from a very small cottage type Hospital
to where you see it now. Our capacity
presently is between 320-350 beds and
here at the Hospital we have all the ranges
of services that you can have, and we also
have outpatient centres as well.
We are proud to have one of the best cancer
centres in this country which is actually
serving most patients from the region.
We have a very active dialysis centre, a
buzzing accident & emergency centre
supported with advanced radiology, and
advanced laboratory services, combined
with our in-patient services.
We recently opened Specialty Clinics, at
our Anderson Centre, which presently are
up to 26. That basically helps us use more
specialists who may not necessarily have
offices on this campus. Other specialists
are housed at Doctors Plaza, and some
in the old part of the Hospital. Then we
now also have 2 floors at The Convention
Centre and this has placed all the top
specialists in Kenya literally under one
roof here.
The Anderson Specialty Clinic, housed
in the new wing, also has what I call an
executive clinic which is for executives who
want a lot more privacy than usual. The
backbone for us is the Cicely McDonnell
College of Health Sciences, which we
have had here for more than two decades
that helps us produce very good quality
nurses because they train with us here and
then we employ majority of them.
Our location has a lot of strategic
importance, not only because we are
centrally located in Nairobi as the capital
city, but because we can reach out to most
All in all, you could say, and correctly so, that
The Nairobi Hospital has positioned itself to
be the one stop center for everything that you
can need medically in this country and beyond
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suburbs in Nairobi with a lot of ease.
This has made it convenient to manage
referrals, which we get from neighboring
countries.
We have outpatient centres at Warwick
Centre, Galleria Mall, Rosslyn Riviera
Mall and Capital Centre - with plans
within the next two months to open new
centres, one in Kiambu Mall, Kiambu
town and another in Southfield Mall in
Embakasi and then eventually we should
be able to move into Athi River at the
upcoming Crystal Mall, hopefully by early
next year, so our plan is actually to extend
our services because the population in
Nairobi is growing so that as many people
as possible can enjoy the quality of services
that The Nairobi Hospital has to offer.
All in all, you could say, and correctly so,
that The Nairobi Hospital has positioned
itself to be the one stop centre for
everything that you can need medically in
this country and beyond.
You mentioned something
important
about
the-
Specialist Clinics. Will you
just name one that is really
attracting other patients
from other countries?
We have recently opened a state of the art
ICU or what we call Critical Care Unit
(CCU) which I think even globally is of
very high standards. This among others
are the things that actually reinforce
our expertise and also our reputation. It
is made even better because all the past
Presidents of Kenya are always treated
here, present Presidents and I want to say
even the future Presidents. (Laughs).