Primary Care should be the 'central function and main focus of a country's health system'.1 The Ouagadougu Declaration similarly states that the vehicle for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and addressing the health of African nations is Primary Health Care (PHC).2

Dr. Margaret Chan, the Director General of the World Health Organization, addressing the 2013 World Congress of the World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners and/or Family Physicians (WONCA), said that family doctors have always been the backbone of health care, and the bedrock of comprehensive, compassionate, people centred health care.3 Thus PHC and Family Medicine (FM) overlap and share the same principles4