March 2023 was a month of growth, challenge, laughter, responsibility, and gratitude, as I worked on the pediatrics floor at AIC Kijabe Hospital in Kijabe, Kenya. Based on prior experience, I knew ...

AIC Kijabe Hospital has picked a new executive director for the facility to replace Dr Ken Muma, who resigned in early 2022. The board of the mission hospital has appointed Dr Chege Macharia with ...

For as long as many a resident can remember, there have been few or no alcohol and cigarette fumes in this area. Smack in the middle of Kiambu, Central Kenya, which has become one big beer and spirit ...

I am the Site Editor and Program Director for Medscape Transplantation and Medscape Surgery. I read with great interest and nostalgia your articles in MedGenMed's section on Geographic Diseases. [1] ...

A piece of aging medical equipment previously used at St. Francis Health has gained new life in an operating room at a mission hospital in Kijabe, Kenya. Physician Steve Segebrecht, an ear, nose and ...

The case of a 15-year-old boy presenting with a large hydatid cyst causing cough and progressive dyspnea is reported. The patient underwent a diagnostic thorocentesis with subsequent respiratory ...

Patrick Kibe's journey will leave you believing in the power of resilience, hard work and passion and it can be traced back to 1990 when he thought he was destined to become a pastor. He packed his ...

Taking a sick person to the Kijabe Mission Hospital a few years ago, one was amazed at the deplorable condition of what looked like a colonial-era road, branching from the Nairobi-Nakuru highway. The ...