ABSTRACT
So far as the Anglican Church was concerned, the field of health was somewhat different from that of education. Hence the Church held less tenaciously to its pre-independence health services than to its educational services. Shortly after independence, it handed over three of its five general hospitals to the government, retaining only a marginal role for itself through its medical advisers serving on the boards of directors. The only two general hospitals it kept were in Maseno and Kaloleni.! To a large extent the Church's motives were financial as big general hospitals are expensive to run.2 In 1968 cuts in funds from England led the Church to abandon most of its regular health services in urban areas. But these cutbacks also reflected the Church's priorities: its shift in focus from the urban to the rural areas and its abiding conviction that as the major vehicle of its social impact education had to be funded whatever the price.
