NTRH Emergency Department Is Now Operating 24 Hours
Updated on: Sep 22, 2020
On average Nanyuki Teaching and Referrals Emergency Department handles between 25 and 30 cases daily.
This is twice the number that the department used to handle before it started operating 24 hours, seven days a week.
NTRH Emergency Department has been providing care to victims of traffic accidents, assault and domestic violence. The capacity for the department has been boosted to make it reliable in provision of services to critical patients.
In total, the department is currently run by six doctors, nine nurses and three support staff working in 12-hour shifts.
The ED now has a medical officer on standby to provide immediate attention and make timely decisions for the benefit of the many patients coming in, away from the previous arrangement where a medical doctor had to be sourced from the inpatient section.
The presence of a medical officer enables the department to perform minor surgeries that do not need to reach the surgical theatre.
This eases the strain in the surgical theatre to the benefit of the patients in need of major surgical operations.
To boost efficiency, the facility has a 24-hour ambulance service that caters for patients from Laikipia East, Central and North as well as those from Timau and parts of Nyeri and Isiolo Counties.
Plans are underway to have a triage outside the Emergency Department to assess and prioritize patients going into the inpatient unit for emergency attention.
This move is a step away from the previous arrangement where all the patients queued in wait for their turns to be served regardless of their situations.
By assessing patients at a triage, the staffs are able to identify and attend to patients in urgent need for timely attention before their conditions worsen.
This is twice the number that the department used to handle before it started operating 24 hours, seven days a week.
NTRH Emergency Department has been providing care to victims of traffic accidents, assault and domestic violence. The capacity for the department has been boosted to make it reliable in provision of services to critical patients.
In total, the department is currently run by six doctors, nine nurses and three support staff working in 12-hour shifts.
The ED now has a medical officer on standby to provide immediate attention and make timely decisions for the benefit of the many patients coming in, away from the previous arrangement where a medical doctor had to be sourced from the inpatient section.
The presence of a medical officer enables the department to perform minor surgeries that do not need to reach the surgical theatre.
This eases the strain in the surgical theatre to the benefit of the patients in need of major surgical operations.
To boost efficiency, the facility has a 24-hour ambulance service that caters for patients from Laikipia East, Central and North as well as those from Timau and parts of Nyeri and Isiolo Counties.
Plans are underway to have a triage outside the Emergency Department to assess and prioritize patients going into the inpatient unit for emergency attention.
This move is a step away from the previous arrangement where all the patients queued in wait for their turns to be served regardless of their situations.
By assessing patients at a triage, the staffs are able to identify and attend to patients in urgent need for timely attention before their conditions worsen.
