Who is to blame for the woes doctors are facing?

KMPDU Secretary-General Davji Bhimji addresses the press on January 31, 2023. KMPDU has threatened to reinstitute a 60-day countrywide strike. [Samson Wire, Standard].

Put yourself in my shoes, bearing in mind there are over 1,000 graduating doctors in Kenya each year. When I was in primary school, there was nothing I enjoyed more than watching movies or medical dramas, with the characters rushing about in white coats or scrubs saving lives and, for some reason, always ordering an MRI!

It never occurred to me at the time, that an MRI would be a luxury when I would later become a doctor. All the same, it seemed such a fascinating career, enough to make you work hard to get to the top schools and get top marks so as to secure a slot into medical school.