At the time, few Kenyans had access to health care as most hospitals were mission hospitals located in major cities, he wrote in a 1964 article in Stanford MD, the medical school’s alumni magazine at that time. So he set about establishing a national system of government-run hospitals in the country’s 74 local districts — a system that continues to this day.
Before becoming health minister, he also worked with private interests to build a clinic and maternity hospital in Thika, as well as a clinic in Riruta, both near Nairobi. To help counter the country’s serious shortage of doctors, Mungai looked to the West for a partner to help him start Kenya’s first medical school, at the University of Nairobi. He approached Stanford, among others, and ended up inking an agreement with the medical school at McGill University in Montreal, which supplied some 50 faculty members to teach at the new African school. The medical school opened in 1967. Today, it turns out 100 graduates each year.
What I'm saying is that there were few hospitals for Stanley Ann to access in Kenya in 1961. Very few.
I should have provided a link to the source.:
Alumni Profile: Njoroge Mungai
Please note that Stanford University reverses the Dr.'s name. None of the other articles that I have read about him do that, and his brother (my husband's classmate at Northwestern U) wrote his name the opposite way.
Stanford U: Dr. Njoroge Mumbai vs.
Northwestern U: Nyoike Njoroge.
This might be a point to remember when researching Kenyans. Sometimes they reverse the order of their names.
It is also interesting to note that Dr. Mumbai Njeroge abandoned practising medicine in 1964 to go into politics full time. He was a first cousin of Jomo Kenaytta and a member of the Kikuyu Tribe.