Supporting communities through Education and Healthcare

Kinondo Kwetu Clinic

basic healthcare at a very low cost

The Kinondo Kwetu Clinic started its operation in November 2008. It offers basic healthcare at a very low cost, a cost that is waived for those who cannot afford it. Since it started, the clinic has been recognized for its good work for HIV and TB patients, as well as for its laboratory and its more recent maternity unit.

After four years in operation, the Kinondo Kwetu Clinic has taken on an important role as a model to other clinics in the Coastal Province.

The clinic has a program which at present caters for 320 HIV clients per month. To this end, Kinondo Kwetu Clinic, through its chief officer Mr. Harrison Kaingu, has partnered with Bomu Charity clinic, which every Wednesday sends ten people to assist in the clinic’s HIV program and financed by USAID and CDC (Center for Disease control).

Another partnership is with Mercy-USA for Aid & Development which provides nutritional support through the World Food Program for severely malnourished and underweight children. 69 underweight children needed nutritional support in 2011 and received support until to April 2012.

Safe childbirths are another important task for the clinic. To this end, it has initiated a Safe Delivery Program and an Antenatal Program. Sometimes deliveries take place in very primitive homes, with the assistance of traditional birth attendants. The safe delivery program aims at engaging the traditional birth attendants to bring expecting mothers to the clinic. To reach this purpose, the clinic has engaged traditional birth attendants in a welfare scheme for which they are remunerated. This program has had a very good result. In 2010, a total of 42 deliveries took place at the clinic. For 2011, this figure for the first eight months was 129. More and more mothers now come to the clinic for antenatal care, which also helps to bring down the figure of childbirths with tragic outcomes. The clinic’s target is to cater for 300 deliveries per year.