Hamptons hospital, a healthcare provider under Mwale Medical and Technology City (MMTC) in Butere, Kakamega County on Saturday, January 15, 2022, conducted a health and behavioral seminar at Mabole Boys Secondary School as part of its corporate social responsibility.
The hospital’s social and community health team distributed masks to the students and encouraged them to maintain their exemplary discipline and performance at the time the country continues to register high indiscipline and arson cases in school.
The school will also benefit from Hamptons’ universal health coverage program that has been rolled out to help poor and average families in Kakamega County to access quality healthcare through the NHIF medical cover.
It is also among the 25 Schools that will receive solar-powered streetlights from the Hamptons hospital schools lighting program during this quarter. The hospital has so far distributed and installed over 2,000 streetlights on the community roads around it.
Mabole seminar became the second of its kind with a similar event taking at the neighboring Eshikomere Girls Secondary School in October 2021 where the students were educated about preventative healthcare and proper hygiene, career advancement, responsible behavior, and community participation. The hospital also distributed free sanitary products to the girls.
The hospital also partnered with Rotaract club in Kakamega Central in a pad drive to ensure adolescent girls receive free sanitary products. The program has since seen girls from four schools in Kakamega County benefit.
Since its inception, the hospital has positively impacted lives of the locals. The hospital even constructed new homes and rental units for the surrounding families.
Mama mbogas, shopkeepers, butchers, salon, and barbershop operators as well as boda boda riders, who faced insecurity in the dark have also benefited from the hospital’s market lighting program.
Hamptons Hospital started operating in 2019 and is receiving and treating patients across Kakamega County. The hospital is part of Mwale Medical and Technology City (MMTC), a multi-billion shillings sustainable metropolis project centered around a state-of-the-art medical and technology complex located within Butere Sub- County, Kakamega County.
The 5000-bed state-of-the-art hospital will be able to serve 12,000 patients daily by the end of 2022. It will treat locals for free through the Kakamega County Healthcare Referral Program.
Upon full completion, Hamptons Hospital will be the largest hospital in the world, covering all aspects of healthcare while treating patients with state-of-the-art equipment operated by the world’s top healthcare professionals.
As a teaching and referral hospital, Hamptons Hospital will be training the next generation of healthcare professionals while conducting leading-edge research to discover new drugs and techniques to not only treat cancer but to cure it. This is important because today, cancer kills more people than malaria, HIV, and tuberculosis combined, and by 2030, it’s expected to surpass pneumonia as the number one killer in Africa.
MMTC is built with 100% sustainable sources of energy including hundreds of solar-powered streetlights already brightening up freshly paved roads, as well as the upcoming 144-megawatt waste-to-energy facility to produce clean electricity for the city from the hospital and municipal waste. MMTC also contains a 36-hole golf resort with 4,800 private residences along the golf course.
MMTC is the first fully integrated development plan of its scale, and it is being implemented without relocating the local community. Instead, the homes of local community members are being upgraded to international standards with running water and electricity.