Overview
History of Urology and the Department of Surgery

The History of urology in Kenya can be said to have been as one of the ingredients of General surgery.  Hitherto most of the urological procedures were a preserve of the General surgeons who practically acted as masters of and surgical services in Kenya.  The majority of these surgeons trained in Makerere university as undergraduates and mastered overseas mainly in UK.It was not until July 1967 when the Faculty of Medicine was started for training of undergraduates at the then University college of Nairobi, a constituent of University of East Africa, Makerere.  The Faculty was inaugurated in March 1968 with preclinical departments housed in Chiromo and the clinical at Kenyatta National Hospital.  Apart from largely General surgeons who incorporated the urological teachings within the general Surgeons, it was not until a one Mr. Green devoted his surgical skills to urology in 1970s.  He was to be followed later by Mr. Henry Benjamin Obonyo(MB,ChB (East Africa), 1965, FRCS Edinburgh 1969, FAD 1985.) from Makerere University and later by a resident urologist, the late Professor Nelson Awori who headed the urology unit.