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TOP BRAINS: Kenya's only four women neurosurgeons

Most female doctors in Kenya end up picking a speciality focused on women and children.

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by MERCY ASAMBA

News16 November 2022 - 11:43
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  • •The Star sat with the four of them on Wednesday in Nairobi, during the ongoing fourth Annual Continental Association of African Neurosurgical Societies.

After the one-year internship, there is still one question that lingers for most doctors: what speciality will you choose?

It is not just a professional choice. It deeply affects the kind of life you will lead.

Most female doctors in Kenya end up picking a speciality focused on women and children.

A recent study done at the University of Nairobi medical school showed the majority of women picked paediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology.

Neurosurgery fell at the bottom of the list. As a result, there are only four women neurosurgeons in Kenya.

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