A month ago I took my son who is a year and five months old to see a skin specialist as suggested by his pediatrician. He was suspected of having Molluscum contagiosum and we waited for 30 minutes for the doctor, Evans Kamuri, to see us at his private office at Doctor's plaza in Kenyatta National Hospital.
We finally got our chance to see them and they did not even waste five minutes, examining my son's condition (the warts are located around the diaper area). They quickly said we needed to admit my son at Nairobi West Hospital so that, the doctor could undertake a surgical procedure to remove the warts one-by-one. To undertake this, they said my son had to be under anesthesia. This seemed drastic and a little too much considering at the time the doctor was telling us what to do, they were chatting on the phone with another person waiting for them (I sneaked a look at his messages).
This process did not seat well with me and so, I decided to seek a second opinion and two weeks down the line, I met another dermatologist who prescribed a creamy drug to use for a month before finally deciding on performing any surgical procedure.
What's shocking is that a doctor will care less about the actual condition of a patient before they go ahead and prescribed a very invasive, complicated and expensive procedure for treatment.

If you have medical insurance cover, be careful when seeking treatment from many medical specialists in Kenya as they will milk the insurance money dry before prescribing a procedure that can cure you. If you feel rushed and poorly attended, seek second opinion.