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Overcoming adversity: Kibe, the Kijabe cleaner who became an eye surgeon

 

Patrick Kibe, an Ophthalmic Surgeon at Kijabe Mission Hospital. [Courtesy]

Patrick Kibe has risen from a cleaner, storekeeper, clinical officer to an ophthalmic cataract surgeon at Kijabe Mission Hospital.

An ophthalmic surgeon specialises in examining patients with eye diseases, diagnosing and prescribing medication and performing eye surgeries. Being a surgeon is a steep deviation from the norm for the third born of 10 children whose aspiration was to be a pastor.

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