Physicians From Angola

"There will be no radical shakeup."

"You don't fix what works well."

"improve and change things where there is a need to do so."

"At the time there was a critical shortage of doctors in the country and so we had to cope with the huge demand for medical care."

"I thought that rather than looking at patients in the hospital it was better to go out into the communities and check and look at the issue in a broader view. I then made up my mind to shift from internal medicine to public health."

"But we must be realistic in relation to realities."

"WHO is not a political organisation."

"It is a technical organisation and we operate on the basis of the health and technical needs of member states and we do things according to our organisation's interests and mandate."