Fardosa Ahmed (born ) is a Kenyan physician, businesswoman, and
health administrator
Health administration, healthcare administration, healthcare management or hospital management is the field relating to leadership, management, and administration of public health systems, health care systems, hospitals, and hospital networks ...
, who is the chief executive officer of Premier Hospital in
Mombasa, a private health facility that she co-founded and co-owns.
Background and education
Ahmed was born in
Nairobi, the largest city in Kenya . She attended ''Makini Primary School'', in Nairobi, Kenya's capital city. She then transferred to ''Loreto Convent Valley Road School'', also in Nairobi, where she graduated with a
High School Diploma
A high school diploma or high school degree is a North American academic school leaving qualification awarded upon high school graduation. The high school diploma is typically obtained after a course of study lasting four years, from grade 9 to gra ...
. She was then admitted to the
University of Nairobi, where she studied
human medicine, graduating with a
Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degree.
Later, she obtained a
Postgraduate Diploma in Healthcare Management.
Career
After her one-year internship, she relocated to the city of Mombasa, where she owned a piece of land in the suburb of
Nyali. Using her own funds and money sourced from like-minded people, Dr Ahmed erected an eight-story commercial building on the land that she owned. Initially the intent was to build an office complex. Plans were changed later and Premier Hospital, Mombasa was created.
Premier Hospital is a private, for-profit, tertiary care health facility, with bed-capacity of 70, as of June 2019. Opened on 24 November 2017, the hospital employs over 200 staff and has a pediatric outpatient centre, a surgical suite, a cardiac suite, an orthopedics suite, a gynecology suite, an oncology suite, a dialysis centre, an outpatient chemotherapy suite and an endoscopy suite.
Other considerations
In September 2018,
Business Daily Africa, a Kenyan, English language, daily newspaper, named Fadosa Ahmed, among the "Top 40 Under 40 Women in Kenya in 2018".
See also
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Gladys Ngetich
Gladys Chepkirui Ngetich (born c.1991) is a Kenyan engineer, and a Rhodes scholar, pursuing a doctorate degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom. She is the recipient of the Tanenbaum Fellowship and the ...
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Charity Wayua
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Juliet Obanda Makanga
Juliet Obanda Makanga (née Juliet Obanda) is a Kenyan pharmacologist, neuroscientist and medical researcher, who works as a Lecturer in Clinical Pharmacology, at the School of Pharmacy of Kenyatta University, in Kahawa, Nairobi.
Backgrou ...
References
See also
Website of Premier Hospital
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1980s births
Living people
21st-century Kenyan physicians
Swahili people
21st-century Kenyan women scientists
21st-century Kenyan scientists
Kenyan chief executives
People from Mombasa County
University of Nairobi alumni
21st-century Kenyan women physicians
Kenyan women chief executives