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Kenya: 11,578 delivered in MSF's shipping container hospital

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06 Sep 18

In January 2016, MSF started refurbishing Mrima Hospital. To ensure access to medical services until the new health centre was functional, MSF set up a temporary facility made from shipping containers, bound together to make a fully functional hospital complete with an operating theatre. The ‘Container Village’, as many came to refer to it, became a haven where many mothers could deliver their babies in safety, even with complicated pregnancies.

For the two years and a half that the shipping-container facility was operational, 11,578 deliveries were assisted in it.

Mombasa County Governor, Hassan Ali Joho (L) with OCG Kenya Head of Mission unveiling the plaque for the newly-expanded Mrima Health Centre in Likoni

A mother and her visitor admire a newborn baby in the newly extended Mrima Hospital in Likoni.

A nurse performs a check on the vitals of a mother who had delivered a few hours earlier in the new Mrima Hospital.

MSF Swiss Head of Mission, Stéphanie Giandonato giving a speech during the official opening of the newly expanded Mrima Hospital in Likoni.

One of the maternity wards inside the in the modified shipping-container facility in Likoni

Beds in the delivery room in the shipping-container facility in Likoni

Anaesthetist George Njenga examines a patient in the recovery room after a cesarean section in the shipping-container facility.

Gituma Marigu, a theatre midwife showing a newborn baby to the mother during a cesarean section.

Baraka, a midwife checking the vitals of newborn babies at the MSF facility in Likoni

A newborn baby at the Mrima Maternity Hospital

A newborn baby at the Mrima Maternity Hospital

Mothers sleeping in a tent-ward pitched outside the shipping-container-made hospital during the countrywide nurses' strike in Kenya. Many mothers had no other alternative facilities to deliver in and had to come to Mrima.

Surgical team performs a cesarean section to a mother in an operating theatre in the modified shipping container.

Ali Oketch, the MSF’s Operating Theatre Nurse Supervisor in Likoni.

Midwife Pamela Were in the newly opened Mrima faciity.

21-year-old Rosenta Adhiambo was the first patient to be admitted in the newly opened Mrima Maternuty Hospital.

Ndusya Peter, 40, holds her twins a day after giving birth in MSF’s modified shipping-container facility in Likoni

A newborn baby at the facility in Likoni

All Photos © Paul Odongo/MSF

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