Medical Students at Meru

 Visiting Meru Hospital

This is a fantastic opportunity to visit and assist in a hospital in Central Kenya. 

This will allow you to experience and help out in the many different hospital departments.

We recommend you visit during your summer break or your elective.

This trip will open your eyes to tropical medicine and allow you to get involved in a medical setting completely different to what you will have experienced before, whilst enhancing your CV.

Another opportunity we offer is to teach at Mutunyi Primary School which can easily be combined with a period of time working at the hospital. 

Medical students have found this an incredibly rewarding experience, however it can be very tough at times. It is a very raw environment and working in a hospital with a high AIDS prevalence inevitably comes with risk and so it is up to the volunteers to take the necessary precautions.

CSMF wants to make it clear that choosing to go on this trip, everything that you do is entirely at your own risk. This includes the obvious issues that may arise in the hospital and also the hiring of the car.

Ideally you would combine the time you will spend at the hospital with travel around East Africa, White Water Rafting in Uganda, watching big cats on safari, climbing Mt Kenya and relaxing on the beaches of Kenya and Zanzibar.

Cost:

 £10 pounds a day for accommodation, breakfast and dinner.

£15 a day to hire a car, this cost will be split between the group. Having a car is esential as your accomodation is about a 40 minute drive from the hospital. This is not however a difficult drive as you might expect in Africa as it is through a rural area on a tarmac road and the town, Meru, is not a particually big or busy town. This car is very basic and if a more sophisticated car is required then it can be arranged, but will inevitebly cost more.

We ask that collectively each group could raise £500 for the CSMF.

Recent News:

 Sadly taking photos at the hospital is not allowed. However the is a photo of students at Mutunyi Primary School with CSMF volunteers

 CSMF volunteers painting a classroom at the school

 Claire enjoying one of Kenya's most beautiful beaches after a week three weeks volunteering at Meru Hospital and Mutinyi school.