- General Medical Care: screening & treatment of communicable & non-communicable diseases (diabetes, hypertension, malaria, typhoid, etc)
- Preventive Medicine: family planning & vaccination (Hep B)
- Specialized in Communicable Conditions
- Minor Emergencies: such as suturing & wound dressing
- Women’s Health: including family planning & colposcopy
- Fully equipped laboratory: chemistries, hematology analysis, malaria, blood group, glucose, STIs, CD4, Viral load, TB sputum testing & more.
- In-house pharmacy services: general medicine, ART services & TB treatment
IHCC is not a 24 hour facility, therefore clients are not admitted. Clients may be detained for observation for up to a maximum of 8 hours during clinic opening hours. We can recommend and refer other facilities as needed.
GENERAL MEDICAL SERVICES
As a community clinic, open to the general public, IHCC is prepared to attend to any general medical concerns that visiting clients may have. We act as a first point of call for many medical problems, both for adults as well as for children.
Basic First Aid care & treatment of a range of non-life threatening injuries and illnesses that require immediate attention includes:
- Acute pain and injuries
- Asthma and trouble breathing
- Allergic reactions from food and stings
- Colds, flu and other respiratory tract infections
- Cuts, scrapes, wounds, abrasions and minor burns
- Dehydration
- Diabetic issues
- Headaches
- High blood pressure
- Jaundice
- Nausea, vomiting and diarrhea
- Rashes
- Minor sports injuries
- Malaria and malaria-related issues
- Sprains & strains
- Typhoid
- Urinary Tract Infections
- Management of non communicable related issues
- Minor surgical procedures such as incision and drainage, sutures/stitches
- Nebulizer treatments
PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE
At IHCC, we believe that prevention is the cure. We make every effort therefore to ensure that we promote this. As such, we are very passionate about both preventing and detecting illnesses at a very early stage so as to enable quality of life. IHCC therefore focuses on the following areas:
- Family Planning,
- Vaccinations (Hep B)
- Pre employment physicals, Travel physicals, School entry physicals, sports physicals
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES
IHCC is specialized in communicable diseases. We can provide patients with information and treatment of many communicable diseases including:
- Screening and treatment of Communicable Diseases
- HIV
- Tuberculosis
- Hepatitis
- Sexually Transmitted Infections/Diseases
We are also well-experienced in offering counselling and testing for various chronic conditions including HIV as well as managing persons infected with HIV. IHCC is also one of the NACP’s accredited anti-retroviral (ART) sites.