Betty Muthoni Gikonyo (born 27 May 1950) is a Kenyan medical entrepreneur, pediatric cardiologist and one of the country's best known healthcare professionals.
She has been featured on CNN's African Voices[1][2] Gikonyo is a co-founder and the chairperson of the Karen Hospital Board of Directors.
[9] But her biggest inspiration to pursue a medical career came from her elder brother, Dr Wallace Kahugu, because her mother spoke highly of him.
The hospital also has satellite branches in Chester House (in Nairobi's city centre), Karatina, Meru, Nyeri, Nakuru, Kitengela and Mombasa.
[10] She is married to Daniel Gikonyo, a cardiologist, Karen Hospital co-founder[2] and the long-standing personal doctor of Kenya's third president Mwai Kibaki.