Monthly Archives: June 2023

KUTRRH has yet again given a shot of life to a patient. The 40-year-old patient, a hit-and-run accident victim, suffered a neck fracture that paralyzed his lower and upper limbs. The patient was attended to at a local hospital which referred him to KUTRRH for further treatment.

KUTRRH (Kenyatta University Teaching, Referral & Research Hospital) offers a wide range of nuclear medicine, and diagnostic services, broadly classified as PET/CT and SPECT/CT. One of the SPECT CT services is the scanning of the skeletal system using 99m Technetium methylene diphosphonate (99m Tc MDP).

The public health and marketing departments took part in a conference and exhibition that was held at Pride Inn Paradise Convention Centre, Mombasa from 2nd to 5th April 2023.The conference whose theme was sustainable public health approaches to health and environmental in 21st century was organized by the Public Health Officers and Technicians Council (PHOTC) and was the 1st public health conference to be held in Kenya.

The European Paedetric Advanced Life Support (EPALS) training took place on 23rd March to end on 24th March 2023 at KUTRRH. This is the second in house training of EPALS at KUTRRH. The first one took place in 2022.The training enhances a multi-disciplinary approach towards the management of critically ill children.