Africans all over the world are making remarkable progress and breaking records all over the world. A Kenyan living in the US has joined a world class rank of students, the first four to graduate with a Master's degree in Nuclear Medicine Technology.
Some couple of month ago, the US had never had any student graduating with a graduate degree in Nuclear Medicine Technology. At that point four students accomplished this at the University of Alabama, Birmingham (UAB), including a Kenyan.
John Gitau Wairimu, 34, was pushed from lack of definition to global popularity overnight. Gits, as he is famously known, was in a special class the first course in the US to offer a graduate passage level degree in the field. It is likewise the only atomic pharmaceutical technology program in the territory of Alabama.
While his academic history says a lot of his knowledge, less known is the means by which his prosperity challenged the chances of being raised by a single parent. Addressing the Star in an email discussion from his Birmingham residence, he relates his childhood in Karura, Kiambu country.
Destined to a family loaded with ladies, he needed to learn and prepare himself to be the man of the house, and he is certain he "turned out well".
"All things considered, I didn't understand I didn't have a father until the point when I was around 12 years. I was getting sanctified through water and needed to have my folks round out the required church application. After restoring the frame, I was sent back home in light of the fact that the father's slot was not filled. But not having a father never stopped him from chasing his dreams and actualizing them.
John likewise holds a Bachelor's Degree in Public Health, having focused on the study of disease transmission. He has been associated with different research ventures considering ecological contamination in the Birmingham territory and wants to seek after his PhD in medicinal services administration in 2018.
Of his accomplishment John stated, "I feel special to have sought after my examinations at this awesome, widely acclaimed college doctor's facility. I have rubbed shoulders with a portion of the best researchers and doctors on the planet here at the UAB. Having learnt from them, I feel prepared and sufficiently certain to go out there into the world and affect somebody's life."
John plans to lead his research on manners by which health abberation in sub-Saharan Africa and other developing nations can be balanced out. He has written his name in the books of history as not only the first four people to graduate from such course In the world but also the first African to do so.
