Development of Orthopaedics in Kenya

Abstract

It is difficult to say at what point Orthopaedics in Kenya broke away from general surgery. All over the world, orthopaedics has developed as an off shoot of general surgery. There are various forms of practice of orthopaedics i.e. as part of trauma or totally divorced from trauma. In Kenya, orthopaedics is practiced together with orthopaedic trauma. This has really developed on the British model. Here an attempt is made to put on record what is known about orthopaedics in Kenya to pave the way for further research into the history of orthopaedics in this country. The development of orthopaedics will be traced along three pathways i.e. human resource, orthopaedic education and orthopaedic practice.