•  About the Hospital

  In 1998, CURE International, in cooperation with the African Inland Church, opened the AIC-CURE International Children's Hospital in Kijabe, Kenya. The hospital provides medical and surgical care to children with physical disabilities. The hospital provides the best medical and spiritual care possible and expert medical training.

  AIC-CURE International Children's Hospital was Africa's first orthopedic/ pediatric teaching hospital for children with disabilities. The 30-bed hospital provides care for children suffering from conditions like clubfoot, cleft lip and cleft palate, curvature of the spine and disabilities stemming from polio, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy and other congenital abnormalities.

  Each year the hospital serves approximately 8,000 children and performs approximately 2,500 surgeries each year. The hospital also operates mobile clinics that travel to remote regions to provide follow-up care and identify children who can be treated at the hospital.

  Kenya Orthopedic Residency

  The orthopedic training program at the AIC-CURE Children's Hospital of Kenya has recently been certified by the College of Surgeons of East, Central, and Southern Africa. It is the only orthopedic residency program in Kenya and is widely recognized as one of the leading orthopedic surgical training programs in East Africa. Doctors participating in the residency program will spend five years training at the AIC-CURE Hospital, the Kijabe Medical Center and, whenever possible, at other CURE hospitals in Africa. Upon completion of the program, the orthopedic surgeons are then required to work at a CURE hospital or another African hospital for an additional amount of time. For more information on this program, please contact the hospital directly at admin@curekenya.org.

  CURE Clubfoot Worldwide

  The CURE Clubfoot Worldwide Program is an innovative non-surgical treatment and training program for the correction of clubfoot in young children. Clubfoot is a congenital condition that occurs in about one or two of every thousand children born in Kenya and is characterized by a deformed and/or twisted foot or feet. Left untreated, clubfoot often becomes a crippling condition. The CURE Clubfoot Worldwide trains physicians and physiotherapists in the Ponseti Method for the correction of clubfeet. This method uses physical manipulation and plaster casting techniques to correct clubfoot in young children. Correction of clubfoot in older children often requires surgery.

  Partnership with Smile Train

  Since the fall of 2006, in collaboration with Smile Train, CURE has developed cleft lip and cleft palate surgical training programs in most of CURE's hospitals worldwide. These programs not only provide surgery for children but train national surgeons in reconstructive surgery and provide counseling to the families.

•  About the Country

  Kenya

  

  Kenya is a beautiful country located on the equator on Africa’s east coast. It is known for its diverse wildlife and national parks. Low plains along the coast turn into the great highlands which are bisected by the Great Rift Valley, forming a fertile plateau in the west.

  AIC-CURE International Children’s Hospital is located on the edge of the Great Rift Valley in Kijabe, about 50km west of Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.

  Country Facts

  Population: 36,553,000

  Climate: varies from tropical along coast to arid in interior

  Nationality: Kenyan

  Language: English and Kiswahili

  Capital: Nairobi

  Percent population under age of 15: 43%

  Years of life expectancy at birth: 52

  Infant mortality (per 1000 live births): 79

  Child mortality (death before age 5): 120

  Per capital health expenditure: $105

  Sources: CIA World Factbook and World Health Organization

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