Doctors’ dilemma in weak public health systems

In July 1995, Suba district was created out of the Homabay District. As a young medical officer who had stuck to the public service after the devastating 1994 doctor’s strike, I suddenly found myself having to make a very hard decision. To quit and go south or stay on and be posted to a health centre.

I received a call that I had been posted to Sindo Health Centre in the newly created Suba District. That time government was flexing its muscle having resisted the doctors strike.