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Mrs Soko of Livingstonia
HIV/AIDs is a major issue in Malawi and Mrs Soko of the Primary Health Care (PHC) Department at Livingstonia Hospital is in the forefront of the battle. Every day she see the effects of HIV/AIDs as she provides practical care for families and, particularly, orphaned children. Here she is teaching a ‘Gogo’ (old person) how…
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Special Delivery
Dr Ross Muir, a gynaecologist usually known as Dr Ross, has just begun a placement with World Exchange at Ekwendeni Hospital. Here he joyfully receives some specialist sugical instruments. He thanks those who made ot possible for him to get the instruments so quickly, and John Challis, who took them out to Ekwendeni in his…
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Eye clinics continue; training courses planned
Sue Kevan and Jim Seymour have recently returned to the UK, having completed another ‘Focus on Malawi’ visit, doing eye clinic work at Ekwendeni, Livingstonia and, for the first time, at the remote lakeside clinic at Luwuchi. During the three-week trip, they saw around 550 people, dispensing hundreds of donated glasses and ready-readers. They were…