In 2020, Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi was accredited as a centre of excellence for the management of heart attacks by the Joint Commission International (JCI), the recognized global leader in health quality standards. AKUH,N is the first hospital in East Africa, to achieve this certification. This accreditation testifies to our commitment to provide quality patient care guided by patient safety standards and aimed at good health outcomes.
Leonard Mzee Ngunga, MBChB, MMed, FRCP (Edinburgh)
Assistant Professor
Dr Mzee Ngunga received an MBChB degree from the University of Nairobi in 2001 and an MMed degree in Internal Medicine from Aga Khan University in 2008, being the first group to graduate from the program upon its inception in 2004. He later pursued a fellowship in cardiology and interventional Cardiology at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, which he completed in 2012. Since then Dr Ngunga has been active in clinical, academic and research work at the University. He has been admitted as a Fellow in the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) of Edinburgh in 2019 and a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) in 2020.
Dr Jeilan is an Interventional Cardiologist and a Cardiac Devices Specialist. Before arriving in Kenya, he was a Consultant Cardiologist at Northampton General Hospital in the UK and Honorary Consultant Cardiologist at the University Hospital of Leicestershire after serving as an Interventional Cardiologist/Clinical Researcher at the University of Leicester. He has been key in introducing novel life-saving invasive procedures to sub-Saharan Africa including: the first transcatheter aortic valve replacement, the first renal denervation, the first intravascular ultrasound, and the first biodegradable scaffold implant.