Maternity & Nursery

Midwifery and nursing team

Part of our nursing and midwifery team.

Caring for mother and baby, from pregnancy through delivery

Our Maternity & Nursery department supports mothers in Chuka and the wider Tharaka-Nithi community through pregnancy, delivery and the earliest days of a newborn's life.

Midwives and nurses provide antenatal care, skilled attendance at delivery, and postnatal support, working closely with our Theatre for caesarean sections when they are needed.

What We Offer

From antenatal visits to postnatal recovery

    • Antenatal care (ANC) with routine antenatal profile testing
    • Skilled attendance at normal (spontaneous vaginal) delivery
    • Assisted delivery and caesarean section, via our Theatre, when needed
    • Postnatal care and recovery support for mothers
    • Nursery care for newborns immediately after birth, including low-birth-weight babies
    • Tetanus toxoid and other maternal immunizations
    • Family planning and postnatal counselling

A team present through labour and beyond

Our midwives and nurses stay with mothers through labour, delivery and recovery, and hand over newborns to the nursery team for the checks every baby needs in its first hours.

What we treat here

We manage normal deliveries and moderately complicated ones, including caesarean section, with the nursery caring for newborns right alongside. The most complex obstetric emergencies are stabilised here and referred on to a larger referral hospital.

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