Aga Khan University Hospital has been executing a strategy to take specialized care closer to where people work and live. Residents of the Mount Kenya Region and along Thika Road now have a reason to smile with the opening of the Specialty Care Centre in Roysambu.
The Roysambu Specialty Care Centre offers chemotherapy, endoscopy daycare surgery services, and dialysis at lower costs compared to the main hospital. “The facility is supported by the renowned Aga Khan University Hospital specialists who will be coming from the main hospital to take care of the patients, hence delivering the same quality of care you’d receive there but at a subsidised cost,” said Khurram Jamal, the hospital’s Chief Operating Officer, Outreach Network.
Located on the ground floor of Jewel Plaza in the populous Roysambu area, the facility is the latest addition to the 54 AKUH medical centers spread across Kenya and Uganda. “The objective of this clinic is to bring specialized services closer to the community; to the people who need it,” added Dr. Amina Kidee, an Oncologist offering cancer care at the center.
Dr. Amina emphasized the importance of early diagnosis and accessible care: “Cancer can be life-limiting because of late diagnosis. We have brought the care people need. The center was inspired by the need to make it easy and efficient for people to get this life-saving care without necessarily going to the main hospital in Parklands.”
