Most of East Africa's existing official medical personnel came from the East. Only Constantin had brought over a private German medical team. Among the other immigrants, there were also some "doctors" from Europe, but most of them were self-taught quacks, practicing the old medieval Western medicine. After all, they came from rural areas, and the vast majority relied on techniques passed down from their ancestors. At the drop of a hat, it was axes and blades, cutting open bellies without even disinfecting them. Who could endure that?
Doctors remained the scarcest profession in East Africa. Most patients could only leave their fate to Heaven, and many people had their own folk remedies. Whether they worked or not, they would try them first. Fortunately, people of this era were used to such things.
East Africa had built a total of 108 official clinics, but not a single hospital. There were 285 registered doctors. One Snake Venom Research Institute counted as the pinnacle of East African medicine.
Overall, East Africa's medical resources were desperately scarce. The silver lining was that East Africa was highly suited to growing medicinal herbs. The natives possessed some inherited knowledge, which the East Africans then learned.
For instance, after being bitten by a Black Mamba, East African natives would find a strange-looking plant nearby, pound it into a poultice, apply it to the wound, and then wait to die.
Though this was somewhat laughable, the natives believed in it wholeheartedly. This showed that they had their own medicine after all, if only for psychological comfort.
Of course, that was a failed example. There were also many successful ones, mostly remedies that reduced inflammation, stopped bleeding, and relieved pain. After all, the natives had spent thousands of years battling wits and ferocity with East Africa's wild beasts, so