About us

Who are Karlton Healthcare Services?

Kalton Healthcare Services is a leading arranger of medical electives and health care volunteer work for all medical/healthcare professionals and students. We are passionate about improving access to quality healthcare for everyone globally. We need more volunteers to help make it happen. Many of our volunteers are keen to help treat patients and often take medical supplies or equipment as a donation to the local hospital. By sharing their skills and knowledge, our volunteers help to develop the local staff. They often act as a mentor or coach and conduct training both on the job as well as more formally in the staff meeting room. This is a rewarding experience for our volunteers and it is also a more sustainable way of leveraging valuable skills. Medical students, nursing students and all health care students are very welcome. While students are mainly involved in observing and assisting local staff, we like to think that international relationships are being created. Many students have a desire to return to the developing country after they have graduated so that they can make more impactWe encourage students to gain international work experience and therefore we aim to create programs that are interesting, affordable, safe and well organised. Karlton Healthcare Services arrange worthwhile volunteer work for doctors, medical professionals, nurses, allied health practitioners, medical students and partners. Karlton Healthcare Services provides professional and friendly service and advice. We handle all the arrangements for your medical elective and volunteering in a developing country including the placement, medical registration requirements and all the logistics. Established in 2013, Karlton Healthcare Services (KHS) is a not-for-profit based organisation with its headquarters located in Nairobi Kenya, with no political or religious affiliations. KHS plays a critical role in providing medical assistance and training in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Rwanda through its humanitarian and volunteer medical operations.

Our Mission

To develop healthier environments and to build capacity through the provision of voluntary medical assistance; training and teaching doctors, nurses and allied health workers; and improving infrastructure and providing medical equipment.

Our Vission

Improving the health and lives of people in Africa.

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Our Approach

The organisation is guided by a 5year strategic plan dopted by the Board of Management in November 2018. The cornerstone of KHS commitment will always be volunteer medical specialists providing medical assistance and support to poor communities in Africa. In our target regions we have established strong collaborations and stakeholder networks with Ministers, Government Departments, medical facilities, other humanitarian aid organisations and the larger community.

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What we do

Medical Service Provision:

Our teams of volunteer medical specialists and students interns provide treatment and surgery to those most in need in the areas of orthopaedics, clubfoot, gastroenterology, urology, gynaecology/obstetrics, ENT, Nursing, Midwiffery,Phamacy,Dentisry,general medicine and paediatric surgery.

Skills Transfer and Training:

Each medical trip incorporates training components where volunteer specialists provide teaching and mentoring to local medical personnel. This may be through observation of a procedure, formal training sessions or structured teaching programs such as the Nurses Training Program or Basic Orthopaedic Management Course in Trauma. KHS also provides a scholarship program to assist community healthcare volunteers to access specialist training in kenya.

Hospital Infrastructure Development

The Hospitals Project’ identifies public hospitals suitable for renovation. These projects also include the provision of donated and purchased medical equipment, implants and supplies.

Advanced Development:

Well-established Clubfoot Programs in Kenya and Uganda have significantly progressed the early screening and treatment of clubfoot. With the training of in-country technicians and establishment of clubfoot clinics the debilitating condition can now be detected at a very early age and successfully treated with minimal impact to the family or patient. KHS has participated in strategic planning and collaboration to progress the provision of orthopaedics, gastroenterology and clubfoot. Our reputation as a leader in healthcare provision to the poorest people of East Africa has also led us to have strong relationships with government agencies and in-country partners, such as hospitals and NGOs.

OUR TEAM

Our office is located in Nairobi Kenya. Administration is managed by our Executive Director, who is ably assisted by several part-time volunteers. These generous people give their time and skills to help KHS in the areas of team leadership and preparation, logistics, general administration, finance, donor support, and communications. Our diverse organization is comprised of doctors, nurses, and professionals from many different nations, including India, Malaysia, Pakistan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. We are an inclusive organization that embraces volunteers from all ethnic and religious groups, and our board is equally divided between women and men.