| The author enthuses over the medical and evangelical opportunities awaiting missionary doctors in East Africa. Amudat Hospital (Uganda)was built and largely financed by the government but is staffed and administered by the Bible Churchmen's Missionary Service. Its staff of one doctor, two nursing sisters, five dressers, one laboratory assistant, and a health visitor serve about 35 000 people in an area of 7 000 square miles. They are increasing their activities in preventive med with immunization, health education, and under-fives' and antenatal clinics, and this new emphasis is being maintained during their visits into outlying regions. The staff also undertake the training of dressers, both for their own hospital and for the g dispensaries. African governments and medical missions are now working more closely together to provide comprehensive health services, but manpower is still limited. In Kenya, for example, there have been hospitals that are not staffed by a doctor. The presence of one extra doctor in a developed country makes little difference, but one missionary doctor here would have considerable impact. |