Our graduates support a healthier Kenyan population

Metrine Mayende, Community Health Nurse, is a CES graduate. Here, she’s “giving back” by treating children’s feet for jiggers, a parasite that’s common in Kenya.

At least half of the world’s population cannot obtain essential health services. Some 2.9 million people die every year from lack of access to health care (World Health Organization). 

This problem is particularly acute among the poor in developing regions, such as the western area of Kenya where CES Canada/Kenya has been serving since 2004. With meagre incomes, impoverished people often can’t afford proper medical care. Others live in areas too remote to access health care. Some experience both these dilemmas. As a result, these individuals suffer needlessly from preventable and treatable ailments.

CES Kenya has celebrated the achievements of a number of graduate students who have gone in to careers in medicine and community health. Their contributions have impacted on thousands of Kenyans through clinical and hospital work and campaigns in the area of Worms and Jiggers eradication, vision testing and treatments, HIV counselling and awareness programs, and pharmaceutical research. 

Here are a few of our CES Graduates who continue to support their communities through essential services in medicine and community health care. 

Alinda Alfred Khamala

Medical Research 

Busuku Musli Wetende 

CMO - Bushiri Clinic

Aziza Wafula

Nurse Tenwek Hospital 

Mwanarabu Otswang

HIV Community Outreach

Donald Pluto

Radiographer

Annah Odour 

Nurse Kakamega Hospital

Mildred Wasike

Doctor - Imaging Specialist 

Metrine Mayende 

Community Health Nurse

Joshua Namisi 

Medicine - Uzima University