Helping the patients is good, but getting to know the people working at Kijabe has become opportunity to support not only the hospital, but our friends and colleagues in the medical community. Dr. John Axelson

Oncologist, Friends of Kijabe Board

Looking at the history of what Kijabe has been and where it is today, the places it’s been through, and what has been happening at the hospital in the few years I have been here, one thing is apparent, Kijabe must have been set up with God’s mission at the purpose at the center of it.

Every day, there are patients whose lives are permanently changed because of what we do, and somehow it seems this happens in spite of us!  We look at the big picture and see that God is still at work, his work will still go on. People are coming, needy patients are coming, people in distress from physical or spiritual conditions. Our job as physicians is to look at this and choose to be a part of this.

Head and Neck Surgeon, Kijabe Hospital

I see and experience God in real, tangible ways here.  I don’t think I had to leave the US to experience that, but it is making an intentional choice to follow where you think God is leading.  

Seeing what He is doing in Kijabe.  Hearing the stories of where this hospital started over a hundred years ago, the improbabilities of it being what it is today, seeing so many of my colleagues, what they are doing. . .witnessing these miraculous outcomes. 

Even yesterday I was giving exposure to an orthopaedic surgeon and neurosurgeon to the top of the spine through the mouth.  The patient comes in barely able to move and he’s going to leave being able to walk. To me that’s just miraculous. 

Being part of that is really, really fun.  It’s really compelling.  It’s what draws me in and keeps me here. 

ENT Surgeon, Kijabe Hospital