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Kenya started training doctors in 1967 when it recalled Dr Joseph Maina Mungai from Uganda's Makerere, then the premier university in East Africa. Though Kenya needed him badly, Makerere refused to release him, forcing Kenya to pay off his contract.
When he finally started the University of Nairobi, School of Medicine, it not only had shortage of staff, but also equipment and teaching materials, including cadavers for practical lessons.
The Anatomy Bill had not become law for Dr Mungai to collect cadavers in Kenya. Makerere lent him 10 cadavers, but no driver was willing to gas the Land Rover from the Vet Department to Makerere. In any case, being in possession of cadavers in Kenya was illegal.
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