Aga Khan University announces faculty of health sciences in East Africa (Kenya)

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FE Report
His Highness the Aga Khan, Chancellor of the Aga Khan University, accompanied by Professor George Saitoti, Kenyan minister for education, recently inaugurated the faculty of health sciences of the Aga Khan University (AKU-FHS)-East Africa's first premier private medical school.
The US $250 million health sciences campus to be established in Nairobi, aims to provide international standard education for doctors, nurses and allied health professionals. It will comprise a medical college, a school of nursing and allied health programmes and will offer degrees at bachelors, masters and PhD levels, according to a press release.
Speaking at the launch of the faculty, the Aga Khan, who is also founder and Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), commented, "Building on the success of its existing programmes-the Aga Khan University is planning to establish a new faculty of health sciences in Nairobi. To my knowledge, this will be the first private sector university in Eastern Africa to create a full-fledged faculty of health sciences offering under-graduate and post-graduate degrees in medicine, nursing and the allied health sciences".
The faculty is the first social development initiative announced by the Aga Khan as part of his Golden Jubilee celebrations, marking his 50 years as the Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Ismaili Muslims.