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Rank: Member Joined: 1/15/2010 Posts: 458
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I got my first son in July at the Agha khan hospital, the treatment from the doctors and nurses who attended to my better half were very good and at least they were answering all the questions I was asking, they did not insist on CS as I hear most of this hospitals the moment they see insurance they create a need for CS even if the situation does not necessitate for one. With the bouncing baby boy in the house soon after the ante-natal care of immunizing the young life there will come a time when we shall need to get paediatric hospital... Fellow wazuans around the Nairobi area which hospital would you recommend for paediatric care? update president set president = speaker where president is null
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Rank: Member Joined: 8/2/2010 Posts: 480 Location: chokoo
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Rank: Elder Joined: 3/2/2009 Posts: 26,328 Location: Masada
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Toxicity wrote:I got my first son in July at the Agha khan hospital, the treatment from the doctors and nurses who attended to my better half were very good and at least they were answering all the questions I was asking, they did not insist on CS as I hear most of this hospitals the moment they see insurance they create a need for CS even if the situation does not necessitate for one.
With the bouncing baby boy in the house soon after the ante-natal care of immunizing the young life there will come a time when we shall need to get paediatric hospital...
Fellow wazuans around the Nairobi area which hospital would you recommend for paediatric care? Your first son? How many still to go? And how many daughters are already carrying your genes?  Portfolio: Sold
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/21/2008 Posts: 2,490
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At Gertrude’s (apart from the Muthaiga one) you will be attended by “Doctors” in their teens! The man who marries a beautiful woman, and the farmer who grows corn by the roadside have the same problem
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Rank: Elder Joined: 9/7/2010 Posts: 2,148 Location: elderville
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Toxicity wrote:I got my first son in July at the Agha khan hospital, the treatment from the doctors and nurses who attended to my better half were very good and at least they were answering all the questions I was asking, they did not insist on CS as I hear most of this hospitals the moment they see insurance they create a need for CS even if the situation does not necessitate for one.
With the bouncing baby boy in the house soon after the ante-natal care of immunizing the young life there will come a time when we shall need to get paediatric hospital...
Fellow wazuans around the Nairobi area which hospital would you recommend for paediatric care? Congratulations. Best hospitals is a hard one. You would get bad and good reviews in almost equal measure. Would recommend that you settle for a local one, one which is near where you live. This would make the diagnosis and treatment of your child to be easy in most cases. This would mean that you go for the hospitals with the best reviews in your 'local'. Also never shy away from getting second opinions whenever you even have a hunch about the first one. He who can express in words the ardour of his love, has but little love to express. - Petrach, Son. (That men by various ways arrive at the same end. - Montaigne, The Essays of.)
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/20/2008 Posts: 6,275 Location: Kenya
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karqui wrote:agakhan paed wing This is right. Aga Khan are patient, they take time to examine the baby, answer all your questions... they even ask if you still have any concern. ZZE123 wrote:At Gertrude’s (apart from the Muthaiga one) you will be attended by “Doctors” in their teens! Most of them look like new in the field, working on gaining experience. I used to take our youngest baby to Nairobi Hospital until one day they dealt with our case in record 4 minutes! Three days down the line, the baby got worse with chest infection, and we headed for Aga Khan and the doc there took 30 minutes to examine. The change was visible by that day evening!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 8/4/2008 Posts: 2,849 Location: Rupi
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AlphDoti wrote:karqui wrote:agakhan paed wing This is right. Aga Khan are patient, they take time to examine the baby, answer all your questions... they even ask if you still have any concern. ZZE123 wrote:At Gertrude’s (apart from the Muthaiga one) you will be attended by “Doctors” in their teens! Most of them look like new in the field, working on gaining experience. I used to take our youngest baby to Nairobi Hospital until one day they dealt with our case in record 4 minutes! Three days down the line, the baby got worse with chest infection, and we headed for Aga Khan and the doc there took 30 minutes to examine. The change was visible by that day evening! About a month ago I took our son to the padeatric section of Nairobi Hospital. The doc prescribed 6 medications (yes 6) and did not touch the boy. When I asked her kwani she was not going to examine him, she asked him to open his month and stick out his tongue. She didnt even have a spatula to hold the tongue down. And that was the end of the examination (took about 13 seconds). I decided I was not going to help her meet her sales targets so I went to the pharmacy and asked to be given only 3 of the prescribed dawas. I sent an email to the CEO about my experience. I didnt hear from him. Lord, thank you!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 8/4/2008 Posts: 2,849 Location: Rupi
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AlphDoti wrote:karqui wrote:agakhan paed wing This is right. Aga Khan are patient, they take time to examine the baby, answer all your questions... they even ask if you still have any concern. ZZE123 wrote:At Gertrude’s (apart from the Muthaiga one) you will be attended by “Doctors” in their teens! Most of them look like new in the field, working on gaining experience. I used to take our youngest baby to Nairobi Hospital until one day they dealt with our case in record 4 minutes! Three days down the line, the baby got worse with chest infection, and we headed for Aga Khan and the doc there took 30 minutes to examine. The change was visible by that day evening! Wouldn't be surprised to hear that you had queued for 2 hours. Lord, thank you!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 11/15/2011 Posts: 4,518
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agakhan tops. Wish u could get hold of one Dr. Kituyi of Afya Royal hapo uchumi ngong road. You 'll see her in aghakhan attending to private patients. "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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Rank: Member Joined: 11/7/2011 Posts: 410
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My son is 4 yrs en his Pediatrician is Dr Kaburu. He has a clinic at Nrb west just next to Moi educational School. For the 4 yrs I have no regrets and I started seeing him the first day my son was born. It will be advisable that u pick on 1 pediatrician because he/she will be able to know any problem with ur child en will also know what medicine, ur child reacts to. changing Dr's sometimes is risky not unless you feel the previous Dr is not giving u good service. All the best en Congrats
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Rank: Elder Joined: 8/4/2008 Posts: 2,849 Location: Rupi
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matata wrote:My son is 4 yrs en his Pediatrician is Dr Kaburu. He has a clinic at Nrb west just next to Moi educational School. For the 4 yrs I have no regrets and I started seeing him the first day my son was born. It will be advisable that u pick on 1 pediatrician because he/she will be able to know any problem with ur child en will also know what medicine, ur child reacts to. changing Dr's sometimes is risky not unless you feel the previous Dr is not giving u good service. All the best en Congrats @ Matata I agree but I suspect Dr Kaburu doesnt operate 24hrs a day 7 days a week. Hence the need to have a plan B in the form of a reliable hospital Lord, thank you!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/20/2008 Posts: 6,275 Location: Kenya
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Euge wrote:AlphDoti wrote:karqui wrote:agakhan paed wing This is right. Aga Khan are patient, they take time to examine the baby, answer all your questions... they even ask if you still have any concern. ZZE123 wrote:At Gertrude’s (apart from the Muthaiga one) you will be attended by “Doctors” in their teens! Most of them look like new in the field, working on gaining experience. I used to take our youngest baby to Nairobi Hospital until one day they dealt with our case in record 4 minutes! Three days down the line, the baby got worse with chest infection, and we headed for Aga Khan and the doc there took 30 minutes to examine. The change was visible by that day evening! Wouldn't be surprised to hear that you had queued for 2 hours. @Euge 2.1/2 hrs actually, from 9pm to 11:30pm!!! And just like your case, we were given 5 different medication (yes 5). We only gave the child 4 of them. We carried all the medicine to Aga Khan and doc there ended up dropping two of them and prescribing different types!!!
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Rank: New-farer Joined: 5/5/2010 Posts: 92
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Thanks @jjred. Am learning a lot in this thread. Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
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Rank: Member Joined: 11/18/2009 Posts: 175
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guys also need help my four year old boy needs to be attended by an ophthalmologist urgently any idea where I can get one who charges are reasonable how does kikuyu and lions place compare in terms of services?, does kikuyu have a private wing? who are other private consultants around Nairobi Some you win some you lose
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/9/2009 Posts: 6,592 Location: Nairobi
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ZZE123 wrote:At Gertrude’s (apart from the Muthaiga one) you will be attended by “Doctors” in their teens! True they have young doctors but which hospital doesn't today in Kenya? The advantage and why I take my kids to Getrude's is many kids go there being a kid's hospital so they have a great advantage in knowing when there's an outbreak or some flu or something going round unlike other hospitals that have to always carry out the wrong tests. Plus remember tha young doctors are thorough and will prescribe the same dawas as the retiring doctors.
BBI will solve it :)
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Rank: Member Joined: 5/8/2008 Posts: 288
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2012 wrote:ZZE123 wrote:At Gertrude’s (apart from the Muthaiga one) you will be attended by “Doctors” in their teens! True they have young doctors but which hospital doesn't today in Kenya? The advantage and why I take my kids to Getrude's is many kids go there being a kid's hospital so they have a great advantage in knowing when there's an outbreak or some flu or something going round unlike other hospitals that have to always carry out the wrong tests. Plus remember tha young doctors are thorough and will prescribe the same dawas as the retiring doctors. I take my kid there too & i find Getruide Muthaiga better than anywhere else. Have never heard an issue with their service
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Rank: Member Joined: 3/24/2010 Posts: 677 Location: Nairobi
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After the experience I got from nairobi hospital, I never (unless its a night emergency) take him there or take him to a doc younger than fourty years.No offence to the young ones but they can go practice on more willing parents. This is after I took him there with swellings on his hands and no physical examination/ palpitations NOTHING were done. She barely glanced at him and am like Im not a doc but isnt physical exam the first thing they are taught?? I swear she even looked like she was googling for answers as her eyes and hands were stuck on comp the whole freaking time. So now its either Dr.Opondo or Dr. Murila.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 12/17/2009 Posts: 3,583 Location: Kenya
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wazua kuna pesa na class, guys are complaining about Nairobi, Agha khan and getrudes...
its like some middle class americans complaining about the john hopkins or the mayo clinics ...
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