The Hospital in Buwambo — Anne Vinton

Junior Surgical Officer required for small West African bush hospital, ninety miles from the nearest township with plagues, wild life and atrocious climate thrown in". Sylvia Phillips, a newly qualified surgeon applied for the job and got it, but was disconcerted on her arrival to find the at the Superintendent hadn't expected a woman. What's more, he didn't want a woman and wasn't going to let her stay at any price.