Full list of Services

General Medicine

  • Out patient department

Laboratory

  • Widals test for typhoid fever
  • Rapid diagnostic test(RDT) for malaria
  • Rapid plasmin reagin(RPR) for syphilis
  • Human chorionic gonadotrophin(HCG) for pregnancy
  • Helicobacter pylori( h.pylori) for peptiulcer disease and gastritis
  • Urinalysis
  • HIV counselling and testing (HCT) for HIV/AIDS
  • Random blood sugars (RBS) for diabetes mellitus
  • Microscopy

Antenatal Services

Family Planning

  • Condoms
  • Pills
  • Injectaplan

Minor Surgeries

  • Circumcision
  • Wound Dressing
  • Suturing
  • Incision and drainage
  • Removal of foreign bodies

Health Education

Treatments of Common Conditions

This is a summary of how we treat our patients at NGHH of selected common conditions.

We make sure we maintain all the below drugs in our store

Condition Treatment
Typhoid fever

Depends on the severity

  • I.V ceftriaxone/
  • Ciprofloxacin/
  • Cotrimoxazole/
  • Cefixime+
  • Analgesics
Peptic ulcer disease (PUD)

Depends on the cause

h.pylori

  • triple therapy i.e metronidazole, amoxicillin and omeprazole

NSAID induced

  • magnesium triscillate tablets or syrup
  • omeprazole
Pneumonia

Depends on the severity

  • I.V/I.M benzyl penicillin/
  • Amoxicillin/
  • Ampiclox/
  • Cotrimoxazole/
  • Erythromycin+
  • Analgesics
Acute diarrhoea
  • Zinc sulphate
  • ORS
  • Syrup metronidazole
Acute bronchitis
  • Cotrimoxazole/
  • Ampiclox/
  • Amoxicillin/
  • Erythromycin+
  • Dexamethasone/ prednisolone
Acute cystitis
  • Cotrimoxazole+
  • Dexamethasone/ prednisolone
Arthiritis

Depends on the type

  • Prednisolone/ dexamethasone+
  • Analgesics
  • Antibiotics in septic ones
Helmenthiasis/ worm infestation
  • mebendazole
Vaginal candidiasis
  • Clotrimazole pessaries
  • Nystatin pessaries
  • Ketoconazole
  • Griseofulvin
  • G.V paint
Tinea infection i.e capitis, corporis, inguium etc
  • Clotrimazole cream
  • Skiderm cream
  • G.V paint
Hypertension
  • Nifedipine
  • Propranolol
  • Bendroflumethiazide
  • Captopril
  • Ferusemide
Dysentery/ bloody diarrhoea
  • Cotrimoxazole/
  • Ciprofloxacin/
  • Metronidazole
Common cold
  • Syrup piritex/
  • Chlorpheniramine/
  • Cetirizine/
  • Vitamin c/
  • Normal saline nasal drops+
  • Analgesics
Scabies
  • BBE
Chicken Pox
  • Calamine lotion+
  • Chlorpheniramine+
  • Paracetamol
Food poisoning
  • Metronidazole/
  • Ciprofloxacin
Eczema/ allergic dermatitis/skin allergic reaction
  • I.V hydrocortisone
  • Chlorpheniramine
  • Hydrocortisone cream
  • Skiderm cream
  • Cetirizine
  • Paracetamol
Malaria
  • Artmether lumefantrine
  • Analgesics
Asthma

Depends on severity

  • I.V aminophylline
  • I.V hydrocortisone
  • Predinisolone
  • Salbutamol inhaler
  • Salbutamol tablets
Syphilis

Depends on severity

  • Doxycycline+
  • I.M benzathine penicillin/
  • Erythromycin
Pelvic inflammatory disease/ LAP syndrome
  • Erythromycin/
  • Cefixime+
  • Metronidazole+
  • Doxycycycline/
  • Ciprofloxacin
UTI
  • Doxycycline
  • Erythromycin
  • Prednisolone
Septic wounds
  • Cloxacillin/
  • Ampiclox/
  • Amoxicillin
  • Metronidazole
  • PPF
Brucellosis
  • I.V gentamicin+
  • Doxycycline/
  • Erythromycin in pregnancy
Gonorrhoea
  • Ciprofloxacin+
  • ceftriaxone
Non gonococcal urethritis
  • Doxycycline/
  • Erythromycin