A Kenyan living in the US joined an elite rank of students to become the only first four to graduate with a Master’s degree in Nuclear Medicine Technology.
34-year old John Gitau Wairimu graduated with three other Americans from the University of Alabama at Birmingham UAB in a fete never achieved in the United States.
Gitau also holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Health with a major in epidemiology from the Birmingham Alabama-based University and has his eyes set for Ph.D. in Healthcare Management to begin in 2018.
His degree will be handy in diagnosing and determining the severity levels of diseases that include different types of cancers and heart diseases which are ballooning in Kenya.
“I have rubbed shoulders with some of the greatest scientist and physicians in the whole world at the University of Alabama at Birmingham,’’ Gitau told a local press.
''Having learned from them, I feel ready and confident enough to go out in the World and have an impact in someone’s life,” he added.
In Kenya, the Kabarak University launched a 500-bed multi-disciplinary tertiary hospital in Kabarak, Nakuru County.
The facility christened ‘state-of-the-art’ was among one of the few institutions within the country with the latest medical equipment on nuclear medicine.
The hospital hopes to attract Kenyan health professionals working abroad to return home even as it seeks to retain graduates who might have otherwise left.
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Nuclear Medicine Technology began in 1959 as a branch of science that involves the use of radioactive drugs to diagnose, stage and treat diseases.
