Pathology Department

The Laboratory services at Kijabe received a significant boost in 1994, when "Pathology Overseas' established its Pathology Department at Kijabe.  It is the fourth Pathology Laboratory in the Republic.  At present (2003) it serves 80 hospitals.  At its inception during a 2 month period it detected 850 cases of cancer.  With the above discovery there are great implications for training staff in the early detection of cancer.  The ideal would be to provide oncology training and to establish cytology services in a number of larger remote health units, with routine 'pap' smear testing of larger numbers of women.  Also there may be implications for using the Department for the 'elective' experience of pathology students in the future.