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, 11,578deliveries 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
