Gill Yudkin remembers her experience working as a GP in Tanzania

International perspectives 

Off we went to Tanzania when the second baby was three and a half months old.  John got a job through a system that’s called the Inter-Universities.  So, he was going to a medical school in Tanzania, in Dar es-Salaam, and I got work when I arrived there –  I was working a few sessions a week for the Tanzanian Family Planning Association and I also had a very complicated, involved arrangement with the High Commission and British Council to be their GP, for a while because I met various mothers who wanted to have a GP they could call on if their kids had earache, and I had to jump through an awful lot of hoops to rationalise this, and have it agreed and allowed, because I didn’t want to be a private GP but there weren’t enough people on this potential list to make it viable to be paid in the same way as GPs were being paid at home.  [So you’ve gone out there with two young children. How was that?] That was great, because, um, it was very easy to find someone to look after the children, and I worked part time, again, and chose my own hours, really, and that worked out very well, and it was a nice experience.