Dr Zipporah Vunoro Ali : The unsung heroine who takes away pain

Not many Kenyans have heard of her and not even some of the 7,000 medical practitioners in the country are aware that she is the country’s pioneer of palliative care on a full-time basis.

Dr Zipporah Vunoro Ali will this week coordinate a unique side event in New York during a UN high level summit on non-communicable diseases.

Kenya will be the only nation holding such a side event at the meeting in an effort to update participants on gains it has made in the field of palliative care.

While a majority of her colleagues ventured into private practice soon after graduating or working for a few years in the public sector, Dr Ali opted to go the philanthropic way.

In 1994, after working for a few years at the Kenyatta National Hospital, she became a volunteer at the Nairobi Hospice where she helped cancer patients to make a smooth and painless transition to their maker in their last days on earth.

Two years later, Dr Ali became a full time employee at the Nairobi Hospice
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