# Kenyatta National Hospital

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## TL;DR

Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi is Kenya's national referral hospital and East Africa's largest; for decades it ran the country's only public radiotherapy service, and it leads Kenya's cervical screening, HPV vaccination and Burkitt lymphoma research.

## Summary

Kenyatta National Hospital in Nairobi, founded in 1901 and Kenya's oldest and largest hospital, is the national teaching and referral hospital of the University of Nairobi and for decades hosted the only public radiotherapy service in Kenya, treating patients from across East Africa. Its Cancer Treatment Centre provides radiotherapy including brachytherapy, medical oncology, haematology and paediatric oncology, and KNH is a lead site for Kenya's national cancer control programme, the Nairobi cancer registry, cervical cancer screening and HPV vaccination roll-out studies, Burkitt lymphoma and HIV-associated cancer research, and paediatric oncology twinning programmes with international partners. The hospital's newer linear accelerators and the planned Kenyatta University cancer hospital are expanding radiotherapy access.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: KNH; University of Nairobi College of Health Sciences
- City: Nairobi, KE
- Type: hospital
- Website: https://knh.or.ke

## Sources

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenyatta_National_Hospital
- Kenyatta National Hospital: https://knh.or.ke
- University of Nairobi: https://www.uonbi.ac.ke

## Connected records

- technologies: [Brachytherapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/brachytherapy/), [Cancer registries and population surveillance](https://onco.cc/technologies/cancer-registries-surveillance/), [Global oncology and access in low- and middle-income countries](https://onco.cc/technologies/global-oncology-access/), [HPV & HBV vaccination](https://onco.cc/technologies/hpv-vaccine/), [IMRT / IGRT (modern external beam)](https://onco.cc/technologies/imrt-igrt/)
- cancers: [Cervical cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/cervical/), [Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/dlbcl/), [HR-positive / HER2-negative breast cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-hr-positive/), [Oesophageal cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/esophageal/), [Prostate cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/)
- fronts: [Prevention & Risk](https://onco.cc/fronts/prevention/), [Radiation Therapy](https://onco.cc/fronts/radiation/)
- people: [Richard Lesiyampe](https://onco.cc/people/richard-lesiyampe/)
- institutions: [Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi](https://onco.cc/institutions/aga-khan-university-hospital-nairobi/), [Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital / AMPATH Oncology](https://onco.cc/institutions/moi-teaching-referral-hospital/)

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