KARIBU KENYA - UNON - the United Nations Office at Nairobi

and travel medicine, health advice, cancer detection tests, AIDS awareness,
voluntary HIV counselling and testing, and access to free anti-retroviral treatment.There
is also a walk-in medical clinic and a doctor available by appointment,
although all new staff are advised to register with a private physician as
soon as possible. Although the UN Medical Service cannot see employees’
dependents, it is happy to provide details of treatments, fees and the contacts
of some excellent GPs in Nairobi. For more information, call the head of the
UN Medical Service on 622267/8.
UNON also operates a designated Staff Stress Management Counsellor,
who can be contacted by staff members from all agencies for all types of
psychological needs, from work-related stress to trauma counselling after a
robbery or carjacking experience. Please call 624703 in complete confidence.
Medical Insurance
Most internationally recruited staff are provided with medical insurance
through the Van Breda Insurance Company in Belgium, which provides for the
reimbursement of medical, hospital and dental treatment costs of up to
$250,000 per calendar year. More information can be found at www.vanbreda.be.
Locally recruited staff are usually on the UN’s in-house Medical Insurance Plan
(MIP), which is operated from UN Headquarters in New York. Both Van Breda
and MIP offer full refunds for hospital care, as well as 80% of the fees incurred
in visiting a chiropractor, physiotherapist or psychologist, upon presentation of
a doctor’s referral letter. For details of the provisions of your personal medical
plan, you should contact your agency’s Human Resources Section.
Staff and dependants on the MIP have credit facilities at the following
Nairobi hospitals:
The Aga Khan Hospital, Parklands Tel: 3740000/3742501/3742531
The Nairobi Hospital Tel: 2722160/2714400/352101
Mater Misericordiae Hospital Tel: 531199
Metropolitan Hospital, Buru Buru Tel: 784432/541215
Gertrude’s Garden Children’s Hospital, Muthaiga Tel: 3763474-6.
Bills from GPs, private doctors, X-ray centres and laboratories should be settled directly and
reimbursement then claimed from MIP.
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