Nairobi, Nov. 26 -- Last week I had the privilege of engaging with professionals in the field of orthopaedics, a branch of medicine concerned with conditions involving the muscular and skeletal systems. Known as, orthopaedics in their lingua, it gives us the ability to move the musculoskeletal system.
The Kenya Orthopaedic Association Annual General Meeting and Scientific Conference was attended by over 300 orthopaedic surgeons and trainees in the country. Also, in attendance were the nurses, physiotherapists and allied professionals.
Like many other professionals, the key objective of their meeting was to understand the future of their occupation in the wake of Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). Indeed teaching, planning of surgeries an...