The clinic moved from the garage to a single-bedroom cottage near a main road junction. The bedroom was converted into an operating theater and the bathroom doubled as a dark room, with a removable window board to block out light.
The practice is now housed in a building more suitable as a clinic center. The layout provides for a reception area with space for over-the-counter sales, 2 consulting rooms, a pharmacy, an office, a laboratory, a preparation room, an operating theater, and a dental operating room as well as supervised recovery kennels and an outer kennel block with an exercise area for supervised lead exercise.
Equipment includes radiography machines, an ultrasound scanning machine, 2 endoscopes, a digital auriscope, and other specialist equipment. Although the practice is well equipped, it is a long way from providing services such as CT scans or veterinary MRI units—technology that is not yet available for veterinarians in Kenya.
The practice also has access to a commercial laboratory that typically provides same-day results. There are facilities for inpatient care, and although there are no “qualified” veterinary nurses on the team, the clinic team members are experienced with many procedures and are kind, sympathetic animal handlers.