Aga Khan Hospital, Mombasa Aga Khan Hospital, Mombasa Established in 1944, the Aga Khan Hospital, in Mombasa Kenya, is part of the Aga Khan Health Services (AKHS). It is a 96-bed acute care facility offering health care. The Hospital provides general medical services, specialist clinics and high-tech diagnostic services. It is part of the Aga Khan Health Services international referral system with links to the Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi and Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi. In January 2017, The Aga Khan Health Services-Kenya and Agence Française de Développement (AFD) signed a $12.5 million upgrading and expansion agreement for Mombasa Aga Khan and Kisumu
Mombasa Mombasa Island. Importantly, both of these names have linguistic and spiritual connections with Central Africa. "Mkisi" is considered the personification of "ukisi" which means "the holy" in kiKongo. "Kongowea" can similarly be interpreted as the Swahili locative of "kongo" which denotes the essence of civilizational order in central Africa. These legends can be read as an acknowledgment of the Bantu-speaking origins of the Swahili people. Shehe Mvita superseded the dynasty of Mwana Mkisi and established the first permanent stone mosque on Mombasa Island. Mombasa's oldest extant stone mosque, Mnara, was built c. 1300. Shehe Mvita is remembered as a Muslim