Trustees

By profession I am a criminal lawyer in Nottingham. As such my route to this post/position was somewhat indirect. My wife first went to KCMC to assist with the establishment of a course in the teaching part of the hospital. I visited the hospital with her later on and while I was impressed by the commitment of the staff and students and the striving for quality in all that they did I was shocked by the lack of materials that are just taken for granted in Western Europe such as pens and paper (we saw typed paper being turned over and the reverse re-used). I then decided that with the help of fellow trustees, most of whom have worked in a professional capacity at KCMC, we could set up a trust to help.

Although we are small in scale I have seen the difference that our efforts have made to KCMC in the provision of clinical equipment, teaching materials and allowances for medical and nursing students.

I know we are making a difference and hope to continue to do so.

Janet Lefroy lived in Moshi from 1989 to 2000 and worked for the ELCT Northern Diocese Public Health Education Programme. When KCMC first opened its Medical School, she took on coordination of community experience for the medical students. The contact with enthusiastic students and teaching staff got her hooked as a friend of KCMC. She now job-shares a single-handed GP practice in Stoke on Trent and also works part-time at the new Keele Medical School coordinating medical student education in the community - thanks to KCMC for the career shift into medical education!

I was a Consultant Public Health Physician in the NHS, UK until 1993 when I accompanied my husband, David (Consultant Ophthalmologist), to KCMC. We worked there until the end of 1999, experiencing many developments and changes as KCMC became the Medical College of the new Tumaini University of Tanzania.

During this period I became the Head of the Community Health Department and Associate Dean of the Medical College and also helped set up the MPH post graduate programme.

We are now living in the UK again and have retired from the NHS. I am happy to continue my support of KCMC by being a trustee and the honorary treasurer of the Friends of KCMC.

Griff Fellows was a consultant urologist in Oxford and retired in 1998. His introduction to Africa was as a senior registrar in General Surgery at Mulago Hospital, Kampala 1968-69. He made several short visits to Uganda in the 1980s and in 1993 spent 3 months at the Institute of Urology at KCMC and made about a dozen return visits. He was a founder member of Urolink, a subcommittee of the British Association of Urological Surgeons which promotes links with developing countries. Since retirement he has set up links between Oxford and KCMC in a number of specialties including ENT and Audiology, Paediatrics, Paediatric Surgery, Radiology and Radiography, Anaesthetics, Theatre Nursing, and Urology.

I went to Tanzania in 1992 with my wife Barbara, who was working in the Regional Dermatology Training Centre at KCMC. We came to love the country and the people, and have maintained contacts there since we returned to the UK in 2001. My main function in Friends of KCMC is to try to maintain the web site and email contact system.