Roadside clinics, tiny hospitals led to 'shotgun therapy'

Roadside clinics and tiny hospitals with only a few beds often treat patients on the basis of a deficient evaluation that leads to incorrect diagnosis and shotgun therapy. [iStockphoto]

The Maseno Mission Hospital, a few single-level buildings clustered below a hill in southwest Kenya near Lake Victoria, is accessed by a dirt road that passes through a school President Obama's father attended.

It has adult male and adult female medical wards and pediatrics and obstetrics units-about 40 beds in all-and buildings for basic radiology and laboratory services, records, pharmacy and administration.