Graduands and guests led by Director General for Health Dr. Patrick Amoth at the John Charles Medical Training College.
More than 50 students graduated with health-related qualifications at John Charles Medical Training College in Nairobi in efforts to support the country’s Universal Health Coverage goals.
The event, themed “Promoting Health Education Through Comprehensive Training, Research, and Innovation,” brought together key stakeholders in the health and education sectors.
Some of the graduands have already been absorbed into healthcare centers and hospitals across the country.
Director General for Health Dr. Patrick Amoth lauded the institution’s efforts in producing competent health professionals.
Amoth, who was the chief guest at the event, underscored the government’s commitment to streamlining the health sector and called for stronger collaboration between public and private healthcare institutions.
“We must all work together—government, private sector, and training institutions—to build a health system that is accessible, affordable, and equitable for every Kenyan,” said Amoth.
Dr. Maxwell Okoth, Group Managing Director of Ruai Family Hospital (RFH), where the John Charles Medical College is domiciled, emphasised the importance of investing in specialised care and expanding local access to advanced medical services.
“The graduation serves not only as a celebration of academic success but also as a reminder of the critical role human capital plays in building a resilient, inclusive, and responsive health system,” Okoth said.
Amoth also thanked the Ruai Family Hospital for coming up with the state-of-the-art Cancer Oncology Care Center fully equipped with SPECT CT & Pet CT Scans, radiotherapy machines that are critical in cancer diagnostics and management.
Okoth welcomed the recent directive by Health CS Aden Duale on mandatory inspection for health facilities to weed out illegal and unscrupulous health professionals ruining the health facilities in the country.
“At RFH we want to say we are fully behind CS Duale’s directive since we believe with compliance on health guidelines by the ministry. In regards to graduands, we are sending them to the world so that they can also contribute on offering health services at a time when majority of Kenyans needs affordable and quality health services,” he said.
Esther Njuguna, a graduand remarked that, healthcare should be the most affordable services regardless of where a Citizen comes from.
“The government of the day should strive to make healthcare affordable and Social Health Authority (SHA) should be working for everyone,” she said.
Also in attendance were Juliet Nyaga, chief executive officer at the Karen Hospital; her RFH counterpart, Dr. Batul M. Fankupi; St. Francis Community Hospital CEO Esther Mwangi, and RFH’s Chief Operations director Fred Kokeyo among others.
