DOKITA: The early years

Abstract

The choice of the name DOKITA generated and excitement which had many factors rolled into one - originality which produced an identity uniquely acceptable to a multi-ethnic/cultural society at a point in the history of our country when national political independence was as paramount as national unity. It is seems intriguing that virtually all the sectors of the nation accept and understand DOKITA to refer to the Western trained medical practitioner as distinct from his traditional counterpart.