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OP: Fruits of Cuban doctors can be seen, one only needs to look in the right direction

In Wajir, the residents have got a chance to enjoy the services of a radiologist for the first time in the history of mankind in their native locality. In the island county of Lamu, an orthopaedic surgeon and a consultant physician have joined the small team of medical specialists brave enough to work for the people there.

In my Busia home county, I hear my besieged governor has already received and put at ease David Rodrigues and Sorangel Taylor, a family doctor and a nephrologist respectively. A nephrologist is a medical doctor who specializes in kidney care and treating diseases of the kidneys while family doctors are “a one-stop-shop” experts who treat almost every part of the body.

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