MATHARI NATIONAL TEACHING AND REFERRAL HOSPITAL NEWS

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International Women's Day

Today we celebrate #IWD2022 celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and poli...

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Self Injury Awareness Day

Raising awareness about self-injury is important as it leads to understanding a...

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Mental Wellness For Children

Mental health conditions in children are diagnosed and treated based on signs an...

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Prof. Lukoye Atwoli Celebrated

Kenya Psychiatric Association celebrated Prof. Lukoye Atwoli for his exemplary...

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A Visit By Miss World Kenya

Ms. Sharon Obara took her time and stopped by our offices and visited the patien...

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Kitchen renovation

Completed

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Departments


Child and Adolescent Mental Health

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The hospital runs a child and adolescent psychiatric outpatient clinic every Wednesday from 8 am to 1 pm where all children with mental disord ers are assessed.

Global Psychiatric Services

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The hospital runs an outpatient psychiatric department which runs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week 365 days a year.

Patients that are assessed and ranked as admission are admitted, and those can be treated are referred to the Outpatient psychiatric clinic.

MNTRH also have the Disability clinic, where the disabled are assessed.

There is also a fire arms clinic where we assess people who want to own Firearms every Thursday 8 am to 4 pm.

Mental status assessment upon request by Advocates for Litigation purposes.

Forensic Psychiatric Services

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MNTRH runs two clinics per week every Monday and Tuesday where mental status assessment of Law Offenders is carried out. Clients are brought to the Hospital with court orders from a magistrate or a Judge.

MNTRH is the only Hospital in the country that admits Law Offenders with a capacity of over 176 beds for the patients.

Community Psychiatric

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MNTRH has an active Nursing Psychiatric Department which visits patients at home for those that need to be followed up.

It also carries out the repatriation processes whereby patients who have been abandoned in the hospital by their relatives are integrated back with their families all over the countries.

Physiological and Psychosocial Management

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MNTRH has around 40 Psychologists and a few Counsellors who carry out Psycho-Therapeutic sessions for patients who are in the hospital but also walk in.

Several Psychologicals models are used at the Hospital;

  1. Cognitive Behavioural therapy
  2. Interpersonal Psychotherapy etc.

Drug Rehabilitation and Treatment Unit

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The hospital offers different services to people who suffer from addiction and Substance use.

  1. Methadone Clinic where clients who have heroin addiction/dependant are given Methadone on a daily basis. We currently have 1,211 clients registered and we receive an average of 800 patients daily. The Clininc is open every single day from 7 am -2 pm.
  2. There is an In-patient Rehabilitation Ward with a capacity of patients for all patients with Substance abuse/dependent
  3. Outpatient clinic where every Tuesday the patients are seen by psychology where several Psychological interventions are done to manage their addiction.
  4. Clinic For Substance Abuse Treatment

Hospital board members



Mr. Peter Ruteve

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Mr. Njenga Songong

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