The competent plastic or rehabilitation surgeon often transforms patients physical lives. Secondly there is the place of the individual within the larger system. KMC provides tertiary care in the context of a caring community addressing the needs of the whole person. The provision of specialists may also free generalists for primary care. Thirdly KMC trains hospital staff who move on to less well equipped facilities.
Students expand their knowledge base and clinical competence and provide a better service.
I took the bus up the Rift Valley from Nairobi to Kampala. The people seemed more friendly and relaxed less out to exploit me. They were more interested in who I was and why I had come. Kiwoko Hospital is decidely Christian. Many other hospitals are crippled by corruption and it was so refreshing to see the staff with different motivations even though they were quite poor themselves - one doctor hadn't been paid by the government for a year.