Meet President Jomo Kenyatta's private nurse

Eunice Muringo was Kenya's longest-serving Chief Nursing Officer .

She was President Mzee Jomo Kenyatta’s first nurse, our longest serving Chief Nursing Officer, Kenya’s ‘Florence Nightingale.’

Eunice Muringo Githae’s career path was because, “I was attracted to the idea of helping the sick and helpless,” she told Conversations with High Achievers in 2011. Interest heightened at Loreto Convent High School Limuru where a teacher had a niece who was a nurse. After clearing from Loreto in 1958, the daughter of chief Robert Githae and sister to Prof Micere Githae Mugo and former Finance minister Robinson Njeru Githae, was enrolled by her father in a Southampton nursing college, England.