The Technical University of Mombasa (TUM) School of Medicine and Health Sciences held its second White Coat Ceremony, with 66 students taking the oath just over a year after the school’s launch in September 2025, the first medical school in Mombasa and one of only thirteen institutions in Kenya chartered to offer medicine. The event…
After years of uncertainty surrounding professional licensing, 54 out of 56 University of Nairobi Medical Laboratory Science and Technology students have successfully passed their Board Examinations, recording a 96.4% pass rate. The results, already celebrated by the student community, mark more than just an impressive examination outcome. They represent an important milestone for a group…
Dr. Janu Stower has just completed his Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the University of Nairobi, and is now headed to Paris on the 2026 French Government Internship Scholarship in Neurology. He will begin the internship on 30th September at Hôpital Bicêtre, a teaching hospital under the University of Paris-Saclay. In this…
Daktari Diaries Episode 1 Dr. Miheso Collins Lemashon, MBChB Class of 2025, is headed to Oxford this October to begin a PhD in Surgical Sciences after being named a Rhodes Scholar this year. He spoke to mTV about the journey. Where and when were you born? I was born in Narok County, specifically Transmara, close…
Tomorrow, first-year MBChB students will elect their class representatives, right before classes start next week. It might look like a small formality, but it isn’t. The person elected will shape how the whole year goes for everyone in that class. A class rep is the link between students and the administration, and between students and…
It is the start of October, 2021. Barely five months after sitting my high school finals, exams that were supposed to happen six months earlier before COVID rewrote the calendar, everything had happened too fast. Finishing exams, getting into the university I believed I was born for, to study medicine and surgery. The two-week grace…
The Ugandan government has scrapped monthly allowances for medical interns under a new policy that reclassifies internship as a continuation of training rather than formal employment. Health Minister Dr Chris Baryomunsi announced the change in June, days before the 2026/2027 internship term was due to begin. Under the new arrangement, government-sponsored interns will still receive…
Dr. Penina Nthambi never planned on becoming a surgeon, she barely planned on becoming a doctor at all. A self-described artistic soul with an eye for organizing spaces, she was headed for architecture school until her mother convinced her otherwise. Today, Dr. Nthambi is a General Surgeon at Kenyatta National Hospital, Vice Chairperson – Kenya…
In summary: The human milk bank at Pumwani Maternity Hospital opened in 2019 and is still the only one in the country. Sites for a second had been assessed and Mbagathi chosen before the funding was withdrawn. This year’s World Breastfeeding Week theme asks countries to strengthen what works. Kenya’s first human milk bank opened…
Summary: Paid breastfeeding and paid milk are old trades, and in almost every version of them the milk moved from poor women to wealthier infants. That history is the reason regulated milk banks today take donations rather than purchases. Wet nursing is the oldest form. A wet nurse is a woman who breastfeeds a child…
