OUR DOCTORS

Dr. NKURANGA John Baptist

johnbaptist.nkuranga@kfhkigali.com

+250 788 123 200

Profile

Dr. NKURANGA Jean Baptiste Nkuranga is the Director of Medical Services at King Faisal Hospital Rwanda, and as Specialist in Paediatrics, Perinatal-Neonatal medicine and Global Health Systems, He has extensive Paediatric and Neonatal clinical background, health care system leadership and management experience complemented by a Master of Management of Applied Sciences (MMASc) in Global Health Systems. In the leadership role, he has successfully contributed to a community-based health care system strengthening through the work of Community Health Workers (CHWs) and sustaining of Community Based Health Insurance (CBHI) to ensure healthcare services are accessible and affordable by all. He also has a deep interest in Maternal, Neonatal and Child health and well-being and not just reduction of mortality and morbidity. To achieve this, his focus is to innovatively, comprehensively and exhaustively optimize the application of currently available resources, technological solutions and scientific evidence (link evince to practice within available resources) to improve health outcomes. Thus his passion lies in “translating scientific evidence into actions that truly impact on health and well-being of mothers and their children as well as using the same evidence to build strong health care systems ready to assimilate and support such translation.