Operating Theatre Expansion Project
June 3, 2019
Expand Kijabe Hospital Operating Theatre capacity from 8 to 15 rooms. Phase 1 project cost $450,000, $330,000 raised to date. Theatre 9 already converted and in use. Learn more at https://friendsofkijabe.org/surgery
Read moreKenya FoK Board Meeting
February 11, 2019
Ree’L Street joins as associate executive director John Richter, Chair David Shirk, Executive Director Ken Muma, Director General Kijabe Hospital Mardi Steere Director Clinical Services, Kijabe Hospital Sam Mwaura Director of Finance, Kijabe Hospital Rich Davis John Axelson Tom Tillett Guest, Tom Laymon Review finances and projects from previous year…
Read moreSurgical NICU
July 1, 2018
$32,500 donated to equip a surgical NICU for babies born at facilities outside Kijabe to be treated for surgical conditions without risk of infection to Kijabe-born patients. Equipment Cost (USD) Number Total Monitor $1500 4 $6000 Cot warmers $500 4 $2000 Infusion Pumps $1350 8 $10,800 Room Heater $1500 2…
Read moreNeedy Children’s Fund
January 1, 2018
500+ vulnerable children have been provided care with a $60,000 annual budget. The fund pre-dated Friends of Kijabe, but is now consistently funded. Usage ranges from $75/CT Scan to $3000 extended NICU stay for 27-28 week prems.
Read moreMaternity Upgrade
December 12, 2017
$50,000 donated to upgrade labor and delivery suite and purchase essential equipment to provide safe delivery services in Kijabe. Purchased to date: $12,500 theatre lights $7,500 laparoscopy equipment $3,000 vital signs monitors $2,000 fetal monitors/probes $2,500 L&D remodel
Read more$85,000 raised for Strike Relief
December 26, 2016
Nationwide doctors strike closed government hospitals and filled Kijabe with desperate patients. Donors provided nearly $85,000 to keep Kijabe Hospital running between December 2016 and March 2017.
Read moreFirst Friends of Kijabe Board
December 11, 2013
Ann Mara, Philip Jander, Mary Muchendu, Sam Mwaura, Mardi Steere, Tim Scholten, Benjamin Downs Articles of Incorporation drafted, initial IRS filings submitted. Purpose: • To help communicate and raise awareness concerning the mission of KH and the financial and human resources required to fulfill this mission. • To provide opportunities…
Read morePAACS Launch
January 1, 2007
Surgical residency training under the Pan African Academy of Christian Surgeons (PAACS) and College of Surgeons of East and Central Africa (COSECSA) launches in Kijabe. First PAACS graduate Dr. Jack Barasa is now head of surgery and first pediatric surgery fellow graduate, Dr. Ken Muma is Kijabe Hospital Director General.
Read moreKijabe Medical Internship Program
January 1, 1996
Medical internship postings at Kijabe launch. After completion of medical school, students are posted to an institution for one year of practical learning in Surgery, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Obstetrics. Dr. Nthuma (plastics) and Dr. Irungu (urology) are still with us in Kijabe.
Read moreKijabe School of Nursing
July 1, 1980
Kenya nursing council gives approval for Kijabe to start nurse training. Nettie Sinclair, Rosemary Scott, Vivian Henderson and Justy Stoesz (lab training) among others were tutors. Later the school would become Kijabe College of Health Sciences.
Read moreKenyan Independence
June 1, 1963
Kenyan independence was granted from what was the British East Africa protectorate. In subsequent years the African Inland Church (governing body of AIC Kijabe Hospital) would operate separately from African Inland Mission. Read More
Read moreDr. Bill Barnett
June 1, 1963
Dr. Bill Barnett served at Kijabe from 1963-1979. A talented orthopedic surgeon, Kijabe gained the reputation it still maintains today as a place of hope for orthopedic care. The hospital expanded to 220 beds as pictured above. Dr. Bill delivers a baby by David Hornberger, AIM photographer.
Read moreKijabe Medical Center Opens
June 1, 1961
Dr. Barnett worked at Kijabe from 1959-1963 before moving to Tanzania. The original African Inland Mission Medical Center was 30 beds, what is now labor and delivery, laboratory, and NICU.
Read moreDr. Arthur Barnett Captured
May 17, 1941
Dr. Arthur Barnett and his new bride sailed for Kenya under a neutral flag, but their ship was captured and sunk by Nazis off the coast of Brazil. It would be almost 20 years later before he finally arrived in Kijabe and built AIM Medical center.
Read moreTheodora Hospital Constructed
January 1, 1933
Theodora Hospital, named for the daughter of the donor, was constructed on the RVA campus. Later became Davis dorm before burning in a fire during the 1970’s.
Read moreFirst Doctor arrives at Kijabe
June 3, 1919
Dr. Elwood and Bernice Davis arrive at Kijabe in 1919, to serve for the next 30 years, starting what would eventually become AIC Kijabe Hospital and Kijabe College of Health Sciences on the Rift Valley Academy Campus
Read moreRVA Established
June 1, 1906
Charles Hurlburt, AIM director invites Teddy Roosevelt to lay the cornerstone of the Kiambogo building at Rift Valley Academy.
Read moreFirst AIM Missionaries arrive in Kenya
October 1, 1895
Peter Cameron Scott and team create the first mission stations in Kenya. Scott died a year later of blackwater fever, but others carried on the work.
Read more