Wajir County Government Initiates Upgrade of Sarif Health Center to Level 4 in a Major Healthcare Boost
Wajir – Residents of Sarif were in a celebratory mode after the ground breaking of the construction and upgrading of Sarif Health Center to a Level 4 health facility on Saturday. The project initiated by the County Department of Medical and Rehabilitative Services is aimed improving medical facilities and accessibility for the local population.
After the successful completion of the upgrading of Sarif Health Center to Level 4, the county government will deploy comprehensive services and specialized staff to attend to medical emergencies in the vast Wajir South Sub-County.
The upgraded facility will handle emergency, general, and specialized operations, offering services such as cancer screenings, vaccination programs, surgical and medical management, advanced life support, and obstetric care.
Emergency, general and specialised operations will also be handled at the facility. An active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART), antiretroviral (ARV) prophylaxis for children born of HIV-positive mothers, male circumcision, pelvic inflammatory disease (PID) management, and screening for animal transmitted conditions will be provided.
The facility will also be able to screen for and examines cervical, breast and prostate cancers, vaccination for yellow fever, tetanus, hepatitis B and rabies, management of surgical and medical and advanced life support, management of high-risk pregnancies and obstetric complications, pre-term labour and caesarean sections.
A level 4 facility should be built on five-acre piece of land or an office space of approximately 2,500 square metres.
It must have a 150- bed capacity for inpatient with 30 beds each for male, female, paediatric, antenatal and postnatal wards.
A labour ward with at least three delivery beds and two resuscitating beds will be built while the new-born unit should have at least five incubators and five cots.
Sarif Level 4 Hospital will also have at least six beds at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with an equivalent bed capacity for the High Dependence Unit (HDU) and radiology.
Other health facilities in Wajir South include; Leheley Sub-District Hospital, Kulaaley Health Center, Kursin Health Center, Kursin Health Center, Diif Health Center, Argane Dispensary, Tesorie Dispensary, Habaswein District Hospital, Dilmanyale Health Center, Abakore Sub-District Hospital and Meri Health Center.