Health Centre
Is a registered 24/7 operational clinic under the ministry of health, which since its opening it has brought a tremendous changes in the health outcomes of the community since it brings closer medical services to them, the Centre has community health volunteers unit (SAKKODA) of 10 volunteers who are trained by Dandelion Africa in partnership with the ministry of health.
The services offered by the Centre are:
Maternity Services
Since it was opened in June 2019, this purpose-built maternity units offers labour and delivery private rooms equipped with flexible delivery beds and facilitates easy monitoring of the condition of mother and baby. The unit also has monitoring equipment for mothers with medical complications such as pre-eclampsia (high blood pressure).
Our team of maternity care is committed to offering comprehensive medical support for you from conception through to delivery and it is 24/7 operational.
Since it was established the facility has helped 28 women to deliver successfully.
Maternity Services
Once every month we offer ultrasound services to people from the community.
It is used for the following purposes within the facility:
- Measuring the size of the fetus to determine the due date
- Determining the position of the fetus to see if it is in the normal head down position or breech
- Checking the position of the placenta to see if it is improperly developing over the opening to the uterus (cervix)
- Seeing the number of fetuses in the uterus
- Checking the sex of the baby (if the genital area can be clearly seen)
- Checking the fetus's growth rate by making many measurements over time
- Detecting ectopic pregnancy, the life-threatening situation in which the baby is implanted in the mother's Fallopian tubes instead of in the uterus
- Determining whether there is an appropriate amount of amniotic fluid cushioning the baby
- Monitoring the baby during specialized procedures - ultrasound has been helpful in seeing and avoiding the baby during amniocentesis (sampling of the amniotic fluid with a needle for genetic testing). Years ago, doctors use to perform this procedure blindly; however, with accompanying use of ultrasound, the risks of this procedure have dropped dramatically
- Seeing tumors of the ovary and breast
Outpatient & Laboratory Services
The Dandelion medical Out-patient Centre was opened to reach out to the neighboring community and institutions for better medical healthcare.
The health Centre anticipates that this Centre will serve to provide easy access to quality healthcare services for your customers and we would like to assure you that the services offered at this Centre are at par with and at the same high level of service offered at the other hospitals
Some of the services offered include consultation, registration free immunization, free wound dressing, free antenatal, free family planning, free maternity free breast & cervical cancer screening and free HIV/AIDS testing
Our laboratory is open Monday-Saturday from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm.
We offer all routine professional laboratory services which include Malaria test, TB tests, Blood Grouping, Pregnancy test, HIV blood testing with mandatory counselling, Blood Sugar test, full haemogram/ESR, brucella, stool microscopy, urinalysis, haemoglobin, RBS, VDRL, H.Pyroli (serum), rheumatoid factor, prostate surface antigen test, Erythrocyte sedimentation rate, liver function test, renal function test, lipid profile, H.pyroli(stool), High vaginal swab, Gram staining and A.S.O.T testing.
Medical Outreaches, Mobile Nurse & Static Medical Services
These are rolled out medical programs that seek to take medical services closer to the communities who are not able to access our medical Centre because of the distance from our facility. Our dedicated medical team go to those communities to offer free medical services which include family planning services such as Implanon,implant removal, IUCD insertion, IUCD removal, pills Antenatal services, Immunization, cervical cancer screening, HIV/AIDS screening and general treatme.