As the international community commemorated this year’s World Health Day on April 7th, the issue of poor remuneration for health workers in Kenya was debated. "The pay for doctors and other health care givers in the public service is so low that many of these people could not devote their full time to public service – like I have had to engage in private practice because the money I get from the university is not enough to feed me," said the chairman of the Kenya Medical Association (KMA).