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Instructor coaching two EMT students through newborn resuscitation on a manikin

Where Kenya's emergency care professionals train.

AEMT, AHA BLS, AHA ACLS and first-aid training — hands-on from day one, for school leavers, clinicians and workplaces.

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Our mission

Raising the standard of emergency care in Kenya — and across the region.

Professional emergency medical services are still a young profession in Kenya, and we are committed to shaping it. Since 2020 we have grown to more than 500 course participants a year at our campuses in Nakuru and Kisumu. As an American Heart Association Training Site we deliver internationally certified courses, and where we see a gap in Kenyan healthcare, we develop our own course formats to close it. That is why we train not only pre-hospital teams, but also clinicians in emergency, acute and critical care. Our aim: to be the leading provider of emergency care education in Kenya and the region.

About the college →
2020
Founded — and training Kenya's emergency care professionals ever since
500+
Course participants every year
2
Campuses — Nakuru and Kisumu
AHA
Official American Heart Association Training Site
Illustration: Lucy and Joseph, Sahara EMS College's EMT characters, with emergency backpacks and a monitor-defibrillator in front of an ambulance
Courses

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Why Sahara

Trained the way you will work.

EMT students immobilising a patient on a spine board

Hands-on from day one

Airway, CPR, IV access and trauma skills are practised on manikins and in scenarios every week — not just in the last module.

Instructor supervising a student practising IV access

Instructors from the field

Our teaching team brings more than twenty years of pre-hospital patient care into the classroom.

Emergency team ventilating a manikin with a bag-valve-mask from an emergency kit

Real ambulances, real placements

AEMT students complete a six-month clinical attachment — 700 hours in hospitals and on ambulances with a field preceptor. The programme ends with the KCEMT final examination.

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Admissions

Next AEMT intake: January 2027

Applications close 5 December. Admission is competitive — minimum KCSE C- (or equivalent).

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Apply online or at either campus
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Interview and certificate check
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Enrol for the January intake

New to emergency care? What an AEMT does and why it matters →

EMT student preparing a medication syringe
Joseph, Sahara EMS College's illustrated EMT, explaining with open hands

Bright, but the fees are out of reach?

We sponsor needy students who want a career in pre-hospital emergency medicine. Partners and donors fund places every intake.

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Accreditation & certification
AHA BLS · AHA ACLS · AHA PALS
KCEMT
Partners
County Government of Nakuru
County Government of Nakuru
Clinical rotations for AEMT students at sub-county hospitals
County Government of Kisumu
County Government of Kisumu
Clinical attachments and ambulance placements at county hospitals
Nakuru County Fire and Rescue Services
RESQPool Academy
RESQPool Academy, Germany
Curriculum partner
Emergency Care Trainers
Emergency Care Trainers