Really No Sacrifice At All - Angola Day 25
Friday, July 18th, 2008 Posted in Angola 2008, INMED | No Comments »Giving medical care in Angola has it’s unique challenges: diseases rarely encountered in the US, very limited medications and equipment, staff who seem to disappear, and precious little in the way of laboratory or X-ray so I often never know ...
Lost Baby Into Loving Arms - Angola Day 18
Friday, July 18th, 2008 Posted in Angola 2008, INMED | No Comments »Four days ago I was summoned to the Kalukembe Hospital, 100 miles outside of the city of Lubango. Now Lubango has paved roads (some places), electricity, (sometimes), and running water (somedays). But in the outback of Kalukembe life has changed ...
The cost of peace - Angola Day 12
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008 Posted in Angola 2008, INMED | 1 Comment »I first worked in Angola during its civil war, and encountered all the injuries and disease of poverty one can possibly imagine: gun shots, land mines, measles, malaria, typhoid fever. What I did not see was HIV disease. While the ...