Rosendo Ayres Ribeiro, ''MD'' (
Goa, 1871 —
London, 2 February 1951) was a
Portuguese physician and diplomat.
Career
He arrived in
Mombasa in May 1889 and later, as Goa was part of the
Portuguese Empire, was entitled
Vice-Consul of Portugal in
Nairobi.
He was
Kenya’s first private medical practitioner and the first to diagnose
bubonic plague
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in this country. Curiously, he used to ride a
zebra he tamed to attend his patients' house calls.
Ribeiro is a recipient of the
Order of British Empire for the extent of his
benevolent
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works in Kenya.
[, Errol. ''The Kenya Pioneers''. Heinemann, 1985. 240 p.]
References
1871 births
1951 deaths
Portuguese diplomats
Portuguese people of Goan descent
Portuguese general practitioners
Kenyan general practitioners
19th-century Portuguese physicians
20th-century Kenyan physicians
Kenyan people of Goan descent
People from Portuguese India
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