About Us
DMH is situated in the foot hill of Mount Elgon, Bungoma Country. It started its life as a small medical care centre in 2001, employing just 14 staff but answering the calls of the community to have a health facility on its doorstep. From this small beginning the facility started to grow, after listening to calls from stakeholders and the community a purpose outpatient block was built using funds from friends and well-wishers of IcFEM-Mission. In 2012 following an extensive building programme including building 3 new ward blocks, a specialist eye theatre, general operating theatre and a mortuary, DMH was awarded hospital status by the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Council (Board then). Since 2012 the hospital has gone from strength to strength and now has 85 beds, an imaging centre, specialist rehabilitation block and a brand new neonatal unit.
The hospital aims to work with local stakeholders particularly the Ministry of Health to provide gap filling services that otherwise may not be available in the local community. DMH is a level 4 Mission Hospital, employing over 120 staff and provides a full NHIF service without extra charge to the patient, this partnership along with hospital projects has increased the number of patient contact from 8000 in 2008 to nearly 70,000 a year in 2021. Working with national and international partners DMH aims to provide some specialist and life changing services at to zero/no cost to the patient. Below is a summary of the services DMH is distinguished for in the County.
Summary of services provided at DMH
1. Outpatients
The hospital provides a comprehensive 24/7 outpatient and emergency service, this including X-ray in a new purpose-built building. The laboratory services include blood culture, biochemistry and microscopy and; provides CD4 counts for the CCC service. The hospital provides specialist clinics including outpatient eye service, diabetes clinics and hypertension monitoring as well as all standard acute hospital services. Outpatient is overseen by a physician who is available 24/7 and works alongside a team of clinical officers, nurses, orthopaedic technicians and physiotherapists. DMH also houses a full dental unit.
Eye Service
DMH has an in house eye surgeon, eye nurse and eye theatre staff that see over 5000 patients a year. The eye surgery unit is fully equipment to do cataract surgery and most required anterior eye surgery. Thanks to a donor for the last 12 years DMH has provide eye review for free, with surgery at the significantly subsided price of 1500KSh. DMH has helped many very needy patients access free cataract surgery by assisting them with funding for NHIF. Under the scheme, patients receive their medication and all follow up as part of the service. An emergency eye service is provided 24/7 with routine clinics held from Monday to Friday.
Paediatric corrective surgery
DMH has a comprehensive orthopaedic service that is housed in purposed built at DMH. The hospital provides a free surgery for children with club foot and other orthopaedic congenital abnormalities. The children have a full assessment, surgery and follow up as part of this programme, including the making of splints and physiotherapy aftercare. This is vital for this community, where many people earn less in a year than the cost of surgery. Without these service children were left disabled for life. We do over 140 free Orthopeadics surgeries a year and over 600 ongoing follow ups.
Alongside Orthopeadics the hospital provides a cleft lip and palette service, does assessment and provides free surgery to over 150 children and some adults a year! The children and their families receive counselling, help with high calorie meal or food and support for breastfeeding and receive all care including meals for the child and caring as part of the package. This is made possible through a generous support from an overseas partner called Smile Train.
Other surgery programme
DMH provides a range of other surgeries using NHIF as the bases for payment and avoid charging the patient anything in addition to the NHIF rebate. The hospital also sponsors needy patients to have NHIF so that they can access our care. The surgeries we do include adult Orthopaedics, goitre surgery and fistula. Using a needy patient fund, the hospital does its best to avoid turning patients away that need surgery because of money.
Maternity and neonatal care
We provide free maternity care thanks to the Free Maternity Service Policy of the good government of Kenya through NHIF package that is offered for patients. This is including C-section deliveries and a fully aftercare package.
Alongside this the hospital has a brand neonatal unit that provides incubators, phototherapy lamp, oxygen and baby CPAP. The hospital will be accepting referral to the neonatal unit from the end of November 2022. It is currently awaiting NHIF assessment.
CT scan services
The Mission has acquired a modern CT scan to fill the much-needed gap and reduce the time taken for patients to travel long distances to obtain this important diagnostic service.
Our current project is building of Modern Operating Theatres with a HDU.
Ownership of IcFEM Dreamland Mission Hospital
The hospital is fully owned and managed by the Interchristian Fellowships’ Evangelical Mission also known as IcFEM-Mission. The IcFEM-Mission is a Kenyan indigenous Christian Missionary society which was founded by Solomon and Ruth Nabie and registered as a society in 1999, Registration Number 19347. IcFEM-Mission has now registered a sister organisation registered in the UK as a charitable incorporated organization called IcFEM Dreamland Mission with main objectives of raising support from the UK friends and supporters for the missionary services of IcFEM-Mission Kenya. The IcFEM-Mission is non-political and not for profit.
Interchristian Fellowships’ Evangelical Mission is a segment of the worldwide body of Christ functioning locally in the villages as a people of God accelerating holistic and sustainable community growth and progress in a biblical perspective thus God with people and development. As a fraternity, we express Christ in the villages through dutiful works of faith in service to God, to self and to humanity while caring for the environment.
The three-fold broad objectives for which IcFEM-Mission is established are; –
- Evangelism
- Community development and
- Ministry to the desperately need in the society.
The IcFEM-Mission delivers her services through a grassroots’ structure of Interchristian Fellowships at village level and Interchristian Local Transformation Units at Ward level all of which are referred to as the IcFEM-Mission’s Field Units.
The following are some of the responsibilities the Field Units have to the universal Church and to the people in the communities they serve; –
- Reorganizing communities into Interchristian Fellowships to foster the Christian identity at village level.
- Training to provide Interchristian Fellowships’ members the essential skills to guide and facilitate accelerated community transformation activities.
- Empowering communities at village level to embrace a biblical world-view to all life and enabling the people to engage each other in love, respect and with dignity and to have a genuine and tangible care for the environment.
- Empowering communities at household levels (especially in rural areas) to respond appropriately with confidence to the challenges that confront them.
- Mainstreaming people living with disabilities (or the people who are differently enabled) in community life and promoting equity, justice and dignity for all.
- Developing the people’s leadership as an inner strength to benefit the community and sustain the transformation process.
- Providing an enabling environment for everyone to contribute or take part in their community development process.
Stimulating communities towards solidarity for holding their future in their own hands.
Meet Our Doctors
Dr. Clement Kiprop
Dr. Emmanuel Imbiakha
Dr. Christian Nabie
A word from our CEO
Joshua’s Journey to confidence
Joshua Oduor, born in April 2019 with a cleft lip and palate, was referred to DMH at 2 weeks old and benefitted from nutrition and feeding support for 4 months after which he has a successful cleft lip surgery. Joshua continued with free nutrition support from IcFEM DMH until at 10 Months when he had another very successful surgery to correct his cleft palate. At 2 years Joshua was enrolled to free speech therapy at DMH and after 3 months of intensive therapy Joshua was discharged from the program having achieved remarkable progress with his speech. He is now a bright and energetic four-year-old boy enjoying his newfound confidence despite being born with a cleft lip and palate.
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