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This issue brings you news from the Upside Down Kingdom. A family leave home and security with their children and another mother is enabled to see her children. A medical student visits a beautiful Indian valley and finds hippies and tourists from the one third world and a national doctor,...
New eye patients have increased by 1000 per year. Most were in the community. This has resulted in better care for the more difficult eye problems seen in Tenwek. We have more than doubled the number of cataract operations in one year to 1300. The cost to the patient has...
Geography The fertile Kullu Valley rises northward from 760m to 3978m. In the south the river can be found a sheer 30Om below the narrow road. Further up, the valley widens and there are apple orchards, rice paddies and wheat fields. Pine forests sprawl over the higher slopes with the...
"What can I do to help ... ?" A Response I write as a retired Family Doctor to anyone who has had medical or paramedical training at any stage. To find out what you can do, you can start by looking at articles and advertisements in journals, by writing letters...
Comfort is painful I am sure that like me many of you feel saddened and frustrated as you read the accounts of Rwanda or see the pictures on television. It is difficult to watch it all unfolding in front of our eyes and yet be impotent to do anything about...
Nepal is one of the ten poorest countries in the world. Over 90% of the nation are farmers, many practising subsistence farming on steep terrain. Rural poverty results in inadequate housing, malnutrition, poor sanitation and little running water. Leprosy thrives in such conditions of poor hygiene, overcrowding and poor nutrition. The...
