CMDA | BethanyKids at Kijabe Hospital

BethanyKids at Kijabe Hospital

^{Kijabe Hospital – the bright
colors outline the BethanyKids ward}

^{Dan Poenaru and Dick
Bransford}

Mission: BethanyKids at Kijabe Hospital (Bethany Rehabilitation and Relief International) and Africa Inland Church (Kijabe Hospital)

Profile: This well-known mission site is the home of the Kijabe Hospital and the Rift Valley Academy. BethanyKids at Kijabe Hospital is a unit within Kijabe Hospital dedicated to pediatric surgery and pediatric surgical rehabilitation in an African setting. BethanyKids has been an Auxiliary Training Site for the PAACS General Surgery Residency and will continue to serve in that role, but is now partnering with PAACS and the College of Surgery of East, Central and Southern Africa to produce accredited specialists in pediatric and rehabilitative surgery. Kijabe Hospital functions as a specialty referral hospital and is therefore often equipped at a higher standard than the average mission hospital.

^{Dan Poenaru at hospital
entrance}

Time Difference: +7 hours Daylight Savings Time (EST), USA; +8 hours Eastern Standard Time, USA>

Location: 1 hr drive (~60 kilometers) northwest of Nairobi, Kenya on the eastern escarpment of the Great Rift Valley (Kedong Valley)

Language: English and Kiswahili, multiple tribal languages

Climate: Located at 7500 feet above sea level, it is often cool, damp and windy during the cool season (June – August) and always cooler than Nairobi. Temperature ranges of 15 – 22o C are average.

Housing: One 2-bedroom unit is available for use by fellows. Housing for short-term faculty is in comfortable apartment units with all usual amenities.

Program Director: Dr. Dan Poenaru
Program Faculty: Dr. Dick Bransford, Dr. Rich Davis
Pediatric Surgical Beds: Kijabe Hospital has 230 beds; BethanyKids has 55 pediatric bed (including medical pediatrics)

Operating Rooms: 1 dedicated pediatric surgery OR
Number of Post-graduate Fellows Fall 2007: 1
Number of Pediatric Major Cases in 2006: 1041
Began Training Residents: 2005
Began Training Fellows: 2007

^{Dan Poenaru with
newborn}

^{Surgery on a hydrocephalus
patient}