The Nairobi Hospital | |
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Geography | |
Location | Upper Hill, Nairobi, Kenya |
Organisation | |
Care system | NHIF |
Type | General Medical Services |
Affiliated university | The Nairobi Hospital College of Health Sciences |
Services | |
Emergency department | Yes |
Beds | 355+ (2016) 750 (Planned)[1] |
History | |
Opened | 9 April 1954 |
Links | |
Website | thenairobihosp |
Other links | List of hospitals in Kenya |
The Nairobi Hospital is a private hospital located in Upper Hill area, Nairobi, Kenya.The hospital was founded in 1954 as the European Hospital, a hospital for Europeans.
It is located along Argwings Kodhek Road, Upper Hill, 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 Nairobi Hospital was established to replace the smaller older Nairobi European Hospital (1902), that had become too small, as the new European Hospital.[5] 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.[6]