"Hospitals, Doctors and Medication" Top 5 Page for this destination Kenya Local Custom Tip by Myndo

The medical system in Kenya is not too bad (one of the things that accounts for the high growth of the population. The people did not get it until now, that they don't need to have many children, because some of them won't survive).

Anyway I would not want to go to a hospital down here. I also always take syringes and needles with me, knowing that in some places they only have one syringe for the whole hospital and desinfection is done by cooking it out from time to time. As a tourist you have a good change to be treated better than the average inhabitant, sometimes even getting medication when the others don¡¦t anymore because of a shortage.

Then there is the problem of getting medicine. There are pharmacies around, I saw some of them during the safari. The problem is only that you can´t know if you buy reliable medicaments or not. Statistics show that about 40% of the medicaments are being falsified, meaning that they don´t content the drug at all or it is not enough in it for working. That is one of the reasons I would not buy Malaria Medication there even if it is so much cheaper: I like to know that mine works. So take with you what you need.

We had to consult a doctor when in Kenya, because I did not want my husband to go on safari with an infected toe. In the ASC hotels they have a doctor (an indian one) visiting every morning between 11 and 12 (plus minus an hour)10 minutes consultation and an antibiotic for 5 days cost 86 Dollars. I would like to have an income like that ....

The link below contains real extended information about all possibilities you may encounter in Africa. The important word being "may". Don´t let yourself be put off travelling there.
As for Malaria: see my tip on that in the danger section.

Website: http://www.africantravel.com/traveltools/medicalrequirements-kenya.html