The Aga Khan Hospital, Mombasa
Established in 1944, the Aga Khan Hospital, Mombasa is part of the Aga Khan Health Services (AKHS). It is a 96-bed acute care facility offering quality health care. The Hospital provides general medical services, specialist clinics and high-tech diagnostic services. It is also part of the AKHS international referral system, with links to the Aga Khan Hospital, Nairobi and the Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi.

The Hospital has grown in recent years, expanding its services and upgrading its facilities. The programme has included improving in-patient accommodation, investing in state-of-the-art medical equipment, enhancing professional services and working closely with volunteer groups.

In 2004, the Hospital was awarded the ISO 9001: 2000 (International Standardization Organization) certification for conforming to International Quality Assurance standards for its systems and processes. This certification is awarded based on a sound organizational structure, hospital management, resource management, patient related processes and the Hospital’s internal quality audits and continous improvement plans.

Aga Khan Health Services
The Hospital and primary medical centres are part of the Aga Khan Health Services, which is one of the most comprehensive private not-for-profit health care systems in the developing world. It includes 325 health centres, dispensaries, hospitals, diagnostic centres and community health outlets. Building on the Ismaili Community's health care efforts in the first half of the 20th century, AKHS now provides primary health care and curative medical care in India, Pakistan, Kenya, Tanzania, and Syria. It includes five general hospitals, seven maternity homes/hospitals and 187 health centres/dispensaries.

AKHS has facilities in Kenya and Tanzania that provide care to over 600,000 patients annually in both rural and urban, and preventive and curative contexts. Its hospitals provide an increasingly comprehensive range of high-quality clinical services.
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Healthcare Activities of the Aga Khan Development Network
AKHS activities are conducted in concert with other health-related activities of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). The overall aim is to raise the health status of people in East Africa and elsewhere in the developing world. Emphasis, in current projects, is on strengthening health systems development.

The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF), with branches in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, works with a variety of grantees, including AKHS, to improve the health of vulnerable population groups, especially mothers and children, and promote health services development on the national and regional levels.

AKF and AKHS have been joined in their work in health care in East Africa by the Aga Khan University's Faculty of Health Sciences, which offers accredited professional training, especially for nurses, and conducts a variety of research programmes focused on the health problems of developing nations.

The AKDN aims to assist countries in the building of effective, sustainable health systems linking different kinds of services and levels of care. For more information, please visit the AKDN website: http://www.akdn.org.