At Arrow web hospital we have done it again on 19th 11 2012 Arrow Web Hospital Announced to be the best on District Health system information and recording it was named Number 1 {one} on district level and Number 7 {seven} on Nairobi,

We are so excited and we just wanted to share it with our friends volunteers and all pple who follow as we say thank for your support without you we could not make it.  

Arrow web hospital now we have installed the water and we have water running in all rooms thanks to our donations from our chairman to by the tank and Amy Barrett for donation the installation funds we say thank you very much to all who participated on the fundraising to make sure we have water in all rooms.
We are now looking forward to fundraising for electricity backup and we have find out that a good generator which can run all hospital is costing Ksh 140,000 or USD 1,800 please if you can have ideas on fundraising and you are willing to help on fundraising please contact us at info@arrowwebhospital.org for more discussions.

We have another volunteer from Italy sveva is a medical student from Germany she will be with us for the next one month we say welcome
she just came during our weekly immunizations and she arrived with a lot of work to do in some photos you may see she is heling our nurses in the immunization room

Baby Michell born today at Arrow web hospital at 10.00Am she needs an agent operations for cleft operation and the parents are so poor that they can not afford to pay for the operations.and they are requesting friends well wishes to donation to whats her operations

Please kindly if you can donate even 1$ to whats helping this poor dwellers it will be very ok.

Lizz and Craig on immunization room Lizz is keeping children records during the immunizations and Craig is following up on Lizz what she is doing

We want to say big thank you to Lizz and Craig for having this time with us we have really enjoyed working with them and we will like you back again

THANKS TO CRAIG AND LIZZ

We say a big thank you to Craig and Lizz for your generous donations to our hospital and you time to volunteer with us the last 14 day you have been with us we really appreciate how you are helping Craig being a full time wheelchair person you really work hard.and we are looking forward for the remaining days

Dr Malack talking to Lizz and Craig at our laboratory round table

                                      Dr Malack is showing Craig and Lizz some of our tests in our Lab

Yesterday we have received another 2 volunteers from the UK two volunteer are medical laboratory student and they will be working in our Laboratory with our laboratory tech, Please follow us for more information about the volunteers for the next one month.

The new delivery bed at Arrow web Hospital,we have been trying this for so long but today the dream has come true
the nurses,and mothers who have come to deliver at Arrow web hospital today they we so happy when they see the arrival of the new and modern delivery bed.
We in Arrow web hospital we want to give a big thank you to our volunteer Amy,Amy has been working too hard to make sure the new and modern delivery beds be delivered to Arrow Web Hospital.

we say thanks for your afford to make this happen.we are still fundraising to buy a water tank and a ultra  sound machine please kindly participate it is easy just follow this link and donate whatever you have no amount of money is small.
you are all welcome to participate

Donation Page

Hi All, If you would like to consider a donation to Arrow Web Hospital please use the link provided. At this time current fund-raising efforts are for Solar Panels for Building (To ensure proper electricity), Examination Bed and Immunizations for Children. http://www.arrowwebhospital.com/join-us.php

BIYCLE DONATION CEREMONY

On March 11th 2012 the Tour .d Afriq again donated 12 bikes to Arrow web hospital and we give a big thank you to Tour .d afriq for they kind support for the last three years,through the bikes our community outreach members as become a very big number and now they are meeting the more community than we were able to meet without the bikes.

Thanks to Paul the tour d afiq tour coordinator and the wheels of Africa who makes this happen this year.

NEW LOOK AT ARROW WEB HOSPITAL

In last one month we started renovating our hospital and this is the new look we just wanted to share with you the new development.

THE RESUSCITATION EQUIPMENT HAS ARRIVED

Thanks to Melissa Ostoga in Australia, Arrow Web Hospital now has a resuscitation machine which will save the lives of adults and children as well as newborn babies. Bram says it has only just arrived from the UK and once he gets it set up he will be able to tell us more about how it works and give more details about the machine for the doctors and nurses amongst you. We will of course post some photos on the blog.

This is a wonderful gift for the patients and staff . We are so grateful to you Melissa for thinking of Arrow Web Hospital when you posted your dream on the Sunsuper Dreams website. Of course we must also say a big thank you to all our supporters worldwide- around 5000 of you voted for Melissa's dream.

Watch this space!

LOOKING BACK ON 2011 AND LOOKING FORWARD TO 2012

The highs and lows of 2011

This year Arrow Web Hospital was able to provide services to even more adults and children, potentially saving many more lives in the Nairobi slums. In 2011 we treated 13,042 (an increase of 2352 on 2010), including 2335 children under 5 and 1788 maternity cases.

As we look back over 2011, again we are so grateful for all the support we have received from our staff and board and local colleagues, and from our friends across the world. Last year we had many visitors and international volunteers from countries such as the US, the UK, Germany, Austria, Australia and France. Many of our volunteers were medical students, some were nurses and some were social workers. All of them brought with them their own particular skills and experience which they were able to share with us and we hope they learned from working with us and experiencing first hand the challenges we face on a daily basis, in providing essential services to people living in the slums.

One of the high points of 2011 was hearing that Melissa Ostoga, (one of our supporters from Australia) had won AUS $5000 in an online voting competition. Melissa had posted "her dream" on the internet and thousands of our supporters across the world voted for her. As a result of Melissa's efforts we have been able to buy essential resuscitation equipment which will save lives. We have just heard that the equipment is now at the docks in Mombasa and will soon be delivered to us.

The big disappointment of 2011 was the last minute withdrawal of support for funding by a UK charity. Their donation was to help pay for the transportation of essential medical equipment from the UK. With the help of Alison Lowndes from AVIF ( http://www.avif.org.uk/) and Jackie Keens from Aid to Hospitals Worldwide ( http://www.a2hw.org.uk/ ), we had been working on this project for over two years. Fortunately, so many of our international friends who had individually donated to this project, stood by us and agreed that their donations could be used for Arrow Web Hospital.

Our plans for 2012

Fundraising has always been difficult for us. There are so many other organisations looking for support and international donors are understandably cautious about sending funds to projects abroad. We have tried hard to improve our accounting systems to show all our income and expenditure every month and when we receive a donation we are happy to send photos and regular reports showing the equipment in use. So this year we will continue to look for partners and donors to work with us and support us.

Over the years volunteers have not only given us their time but also have brought essential medical supplies with them. This year we are hoping to welcome qualified volunteer doctors, nurses and social workers as well as young people hoping to gain experience with us during their training.

We have already had several enquiries from people hoping to visit us or volunteer with us in 2012. In January this year we were very pleased to welcome Jonathan Hirts from Virginia in the US who worked with us for a month. He helped us with record keeping in the community and during the hospital ward rounds. Also in January, Bastian a doctor from the Swiss Army volunteered with us. He helped us in the hospital and particularly enjoyed working with the children. Some were in patients and some were attending our child health clinics.

Thank you for all your help and support Jonathan and Bastian.

Jonathan tries to comfort one of our youngest patients

Jonathan chats to the children outside the hospital

Bastian takes a blood sample at the child health clinic

"On no Bastian, not another needle!"