Thursday, March 4, 2010

The Princess Zahra Pavilion

The Princess Zahra Pavilion at Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi (AKUH,N) offers quality health care in an ambience of elegance and comfort. It offers modern rooms, a fully automated clinical laboratory and a blood donor unit.

Private Rooms

The Princess Zahra Pavilion has 61 comfortably furnished private rooms, all fitted with advanced nurse call and monitoring systems, centralised air conditioning and ventilation, telephones and satellite TV, shower, couch and fridge. The decor and furnishings are elegant and modern, appealing to the exacting patient in search of high quality medical care.

Three types of rooms are available: standard, VIP and the executive suite. The six executive suites are served by a private elevator. Each suite has an additional lounge for the comfort and convenience of the patient and his/her visitors.

En suite rooms overlook the evergreen garden and its fountain. Additional services listed below are designed to enhance the comfort and convenience of the rooms:

  • Adjustable special lockers (for eating, reading or writing);
  • Shaving and grooming mirrors;
  • Electrical bed with adjustable side-rails for patient safety;
  • A personal call bell system to communicate with the nursing station;
  • Emergency nurse call button in the washroom to ensure prompt assistance;
  • Colour television with multiple channels;
  • Telephone;
  • Refrigerator (Stocked with soft drinks and snacks on request);
  • Flower vases provided on request.

Catering

Patients are provided with a fresh menu, daily. To aid in the recovery process, food is catered according to an individual patients’ medical and nutritional needs. Fresh fruit and juice is provided free.

Common Patients’ Lounge

Located at the end of the west wing hallway, patients can relax, read newspapers, magazines and socialise with other patients in the common lounge.

Visitors’ Lounge

The visitors lounge is located opposite the reception on every floor.

Maternity Services

AKUH,N maternity services are accredited by the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, United Kingdom. Qualified nurses, midwives and a team of resident doctors under the stewardship of senior obstetrics and gynaecology consultants provide quality care at affordable prices, offering mothers-to-be a comfortable environment from ante-natal to post-natal stage of pregnancy.

Labour Deliver and Recovery Services (LDR)

LDR unit, first of its kind in East Africa, was established at the requests from new mothers for additional privacy, comfort and choice. The LDR unit which is located in Princess Zahra’s Pavilion not only consolidates the process of labour, delivery and recovery process in one room, saving mothers the inconvenience of being moved from room to room at various stages of labour, it also offers an opportunity for mothers to deliver in an environment in which they feel nurtured and comfortable and their privacy and preferences are respected.

The LDR concept encourages natural childbirth and allows the mother the option of remaining with family members and friends. The concept is enhanced by the use of a special bed that allows the mother to deliver in any position of her choice in a state-of-the-art room. There is round the clock monitoring of the mother during the birthing process by an Obstetrician and mid-wives. A Neonatalogist and Neonatal nurses are also available for the baby.

Lamaze (Birth preparation classes)

Lamaze is a method of childbirth preparation based on proven scientific methods to provide a positive experience for the expectant mother. Recognised internationally, the programme is a popular method of childbirth education and preparation. Couples are encouraged to attend the six week programme which includes exercises, relaxation and breathing techniques, labour and delivery experience, nutrition, sexuality and coping skills for the postpartum period.

Maternity Ward

The ward has a bed capacity of 25. It has state-of-the-art delivery rooms with piped oxygen, neonatal resuscitation units, comfortable delivery couches and electronic external foetal monitoring devices. The ward has 12 ward beds eight semi private rooms, three private rooms with television and telephone facilities and two private rooms specifically for monitoring high risk expectant mothers.

Nursery

The Nursery can accommodate 30 newborn babies with facilities for critical care of premature babies. It has incubators, ventilators, cardiac monitors and neonatal resuscitation units.

The Princess Zahra Pavilion Nursery

The Pavilion has a modern nursery with facilities for critical care of premature babies. It has incubators, ventilators, cardiac monitors and neo-natal resuscitation units.

Executive Business Centre

Patients at the Princess Zahra Pavilion have access to the Executive Business Centre. The Centre offers secretarial, fax, Internet, email and photo copying services at nominal fees.

Executive Clinic

The Executive Clinic is for patients who require privacy, confidentiality, efficient and quality service in a comfortable environment. The clinic offers patients a highly personalised and comprehensive medical check up by a panel of consultant physicians of various specialties.

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