Nairobi — Mater Misericordiae Hospital Nairobi has received 163 pieces of medical equipment worth Sh100 million from Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Dublin.
The hospital says the donation is part of a broader strategic expansion aimed at enhancing specialist healthcare services while fast-tracking its transformation into a fully-fledged teaching university within the next two years.
The donation, officially handed over by Irish Ambassador to Kenya Caitríona Ingoldsby, marks step in deepening strategic partnership between the two legacy institutions, with hospital executives positioning the collaboration as both a healthcare upgrade and long-term education investment.
Mater Nairobi CEO Mary Ngui said the equipment donation forms part of a broader transformation agenda that began in 2023 through a Memorandum of Understanding focused on expanding critical care, oncology, radiology, leadership and governance.
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"We have a partnership with the Mater Misericordiae Hospital Dublin where our hospital was founded and therefore, we are partnered with them in terms of broadening our specialties," said Ngui.
"This partnership is going to continue and as you have heard we are even aspiring to be a teaching university, maybe within the next two years."
Ngui noted the Irish model, where public hospitals replace equipment every two years, opened an opportunity for Mater Nairobi to secure high-value technology that will immediately improve diagnostics, surgical care and patient outcomes while reducing capital expenditure burdens.
Medical Director and Director of Strategy Kevin Rombosia described the shipment as a major boost to the hospital's universal healthcare ambitions, particularly in diagnostics and intervention.
"One important ingredient is to have the right health care products and technologies, that's why today we are having this donation of 163 medical equipment worth 100 million Kenyan shillings," said Rombosia.
The equipment includes theatre operating beds, echo machines, ultrasound devices, imaging systems and critical care monitors targeting oncology, radiology, cardiology and patient experience services.
Ambassador Ingoldsby said the partnership goes beyond equipment to include skills exchange, medical training, education and people-to-people links, strengthening both Kenya-Ireland healthcare ties and Mater Nairobi's institutional evolution.
"And with the strategic partnership and the transfer of knowledge, it's about sharing learnings both ways, that the Kenyan team can learn from the Irish medical experts, but at the same time that also our experts in Ireland can learn from the Kenyan teams and what they're seeing here in healthcare outcomes."
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