Garissa Referral Hospital Stories

Garissa launches massive blood drive to save lives, targets 3,000 residents

Issa Hussein | Sep 11, 2025

He also urged the business community to support the drive by contributing refreshments and stipends for health workers volunteering over the weekend.

Senate report reveals alarming neglect, drug shortages and overcrowding in county hospitals

Maureen Kinyanjui | Jul 25, 2025

The report paints a grim reality; wards without privacy, power outages in operating rooms, drug shelves left bare, and mothers in maternity wards forc...

Garissa leaders push for National Government takeover of referral hospital, cancer centre

Issa Hussein | Jun 14, 2025

Over 200 children in Garissa benefit from free surgeries at paediatric medical camp

Issa Hussein | Oct 02, 2024

Mahat Salah, the Garissa Referral Hospital administrator, said over 200 children were successfully treated by the paediatric doctors who had been at t...

Patients at Garissa Referral Hospital suffer as doctors' strike continues

Abdimalik Hajir | Mar 18, 2024

A spot check at the facility shows only a few nurses doing rounds with patients lamenting that they have not seen doctors since last week as others op...

Garissa County unveils plan to build a 300-bed mother and child hospital

Issa Hussein | Dec 12, 2023

Garissa County is set to unveil the construction of a Mother and Child hospital with a 300-bed capacity at the Garissa Referral Hospital. Governor Nat...