Rosendo Ribeiro

Rosendo Ayres Ribeiro, MD
Ribeiro riding his zebra
Born1871
Goa, Portuguese India
Died2 February 1951(1951-02-02) (aged 79–80)
Occupation(s)Physician and diplomat
TitleMD

Rosendo Ayres Ribeiro, MD (Goa, 1871 — London, 2 February 1951) was a Portuguese physician and diplomat.[1]

Career

He arrived in Mombasa in May 1889 and later, as Goa was part of the Portuguese Empire, was entitled Vice-Consul of Portugal in Nairobi.[2]

He was Kenya’s first private medical practitioner and the first to diagnose bubonic plague in this country.[3] Curiously, he used to ride a zebra he tamed to attend his patients' house calls.[4]

Ribeiro is a recipient of the Order of British Empire for the extent of his benevolent works in Kenya.[5]

References

  1. ^ Reporter, Nairobian. "Did you know? Kenya's first private doctor visited patients on a Zebra". Standard Digital News. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  2. ^ The Official Gazette of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya. Volume XXIV, July 19, 1922.
  3. ^ City Park Cemetery
  4. ^ Goa.com – biographies
  5. ^ TRZEBINSKI, Errol. The Kenya Pioneers. Heinemann, 1985. 240 p.


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