Kenyan surgeon returns home, finds untapped market in shoulder and knee treatment

After decades of studying and working abroad, Dr Mordicai Atinga made a bold, “no-plan-B decision” to return to Kenya. He returned at a time when many of his peers were chasing jobs overseas, a decision he says he has never regretted.

“I did it without a plan B. Some guys hedge. They tell their employer, ‘hold this job for me for a year while I see what’s happening back home. If I fail, I’ll come back.' If you do that, I think you’re almost guaranteed to go back, because that first year is brutal. You have culture shock. You realise that coming home for a holiday is a completely different thing from coming home to build a business. You have to navigate a different setup, and if you have an easy exit strategy, you’ll take it the moment things get tough,” he tells BDLife.