Lumumba was quoted to have said:
“In Africa, we have doctors whom we have trained, but when we are sick, particularly if we are of a political class and depending on who colonized you; if you’re colonized by the United Kingdom, you rush to London; if you’re colonized by the French, you rush to Paris; if you’re colonized by the Portuguese, you rush to Lisbon and If you’re colonized by the Spaniards you rush to Madrid, Spain, and recently because the Asians are beginning to get their acts together, we rush to India, and very lately because the Arabs are beginning to get their acts together we rush to Dubai.
“Notwithstanding that we have the Kenyatta Hospital of this country, the Muhimbili National Hospital of Tanzania; the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital of South Africa, the Mama Yemo in Kinshasa of Zaire, the Democratic Republic of Congo, but we’ve no faith in our Doctors ”