Mary Akai Supat: A Voice and Vision for Nursing Leadership

By Mary Akai Supat, Deputy nursing officer ; The Editorial Team, IntraHealth International Mary is the deputy nursing officer at the Lodwar County Referral Hospital in Turkana County, Kenya. Photo by Patrick Meinhardt for IntraHealth International.May 11, 2021Mary Akai Supat is the deputy nursing officer at the Lodwar County Referral Hospital in Turkana County, Kenya. She’s in charge of 50 people and three departments: Accident and Emergency, Critical Care, and Maternal and Child Health. We first met her when she participated in a training conducted by our USAID-fundedHuman Resources for Health (HRH) Kenya Program on long-acting reversible family planning methods. Last February, we sat down to talk to her about her experiences as a nurse. This piece is part of our special content series,Nurse Leadership: In Their Own Words.I graduated [from nursing school] in 2003 and I had been working for nonprofit organizations for a long time before I joined the Ministry of Health. To me, it is a calling, I felt like being a nurse starting from the word“go” when I was growing. I loved taking care of the sick, I loved helping the needy.
Source: IntraHealth International - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Tags: International Nurses Day Source Type: news