Sam Thenya’s high-flying dream that never was

Nairobi Women’s Hospital founder and Group CEO Sam Thenya during the interview at his office in Nairobi on October 15, 2024.

Photo credit: Francis Nderitu | Nation Media Group

You can tell a lot about a man by the things he loves to hate. Dr Sam Thenya hates time wasters. Or people who don’t keep time. He is the sort of man who lives his life by the tick-tock hand of the clock. I suppose as a doctor one has to be.

Time, those who say things say, flies. “The good thing is, you are the pilot.” Which is hilarious, considering Dr Thenya wanted to be a pilot, but his late father insisted he be a doctor. Whose dream is his living? Does it even matter? Now he has a conglomerate that includes Nairobi Women’s Hospital, nine of them, a charity—Gender Violence Recovery Centre—and Nairobi Women’s Hospital College.

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