Nairobi Governor Johnson Sakaja has appointed former National Nurses Association of Kenya President Alfred Obengo to the Board of Management of Pumwani College of Nursing and Midwifery
In a Gazette Notice Volume 99 of 28th April, 2023, Sakaja appointed other five individuals to be members of the board among them, Grace Omoni, Albina Wangari Githuku, Isaac Kiprugut, Hellen Lusala and Diana Kapeen
Mr Obengo, is a clinical nurse practitioner with over 20 years of professional practice. He is currently a senior nursing officer at Kenyatta National Hospital. He is also certified Monitoring and Evaluation officer from Amref Africa.
The illustrious health career guru is also been serving as a Board Member of National Tissue Transplant Authority, appointments made by former Health Cabinet Minister Mutahi Kagwe following his sloganeer prowess, ‘’We are Kenyan by Blood,’’.
He was a board member of the Nursing Council of Kenya, a regulatory body governing nursing practice and Education. Where he chaired the discipline, standards and ethics committee. Through the committee, he pioneered, provided leadership that oversaw developments of various policy documents among them the entry level scope of practice and other specialization scopes of practice.
Through his leadership prowess and strategic advocacy, he initiated with other nurse leaders development of the first ever Nursing and Midwifery Policy review of the nurses and midwives scheme services in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and other stakeholders
Alfred is the immediate former President of the National Nurses Association of Kenya where he previously served as the National Secretary. During the tenure, he intentionally worked on protecting, cushioning and improving the welfare and professionalism of not only nurses but also other healthcare workers
He has presided over very successful initiatives that have seen Kenyan Nurses receive National, Regional and International recognition. In the course of Covid-19, he served at the Kenya National Covid-19 TWG advising the Ministry of Health and other stakeholders on the preventive measures
He and other partners managed to mobilize resources worth half a billion Kenya shillings to produce, purchase and logistically supply Personal Protective Equipment to healthcare professionals in the country during the acute stage of COVID-19 Pandemic
Mr Obengo is among the group of health professionals that gave a proposal for establishment of training and psychosocial support for healthcare professionals and was the brain behind the establishment of the Call Centre support program for Healthcare Professionals that is still up and running.
The Call Centre is hosted at the NNAK offices which is a partnership project with KONZA Techno polis, Equity Bank, KMA, KCOA, CPAK, NNAK among other stakeholders, thanks to his leadership prowess and lobbying skills
Working with the Chinese Nurses National Association, American Nurses Association and International Council of Nurses, he successfully negotiated for nurses scholarship that were temporarily disrupted by the covid-19 pandemic
He tells safinews.co.ke that, all these will be revisited, where he’s borrowed from global health practice and customized to our local set up that has seen him to be impactful in the Kenyan healthcare leadership spectrum.
To sum up, Mr Obengo is an inspirational leader who always has a hankering for more.
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