Dear Family and Friends, Another year here in Cameroon. We are blessed in many ways and suffering in others. This year began in a very different way than years past. This past year on Dec 31 we were flying as…
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Shanksteps 115 I have just completed my work day. Rounded on all the patients in the hospital, approximately 40. Have seen 18 outpatients. And did a bladder prolapse surgery. Now I have only one left. It’s a child who apparently…
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Shanksteps 113 So how does a country run out of one of its most important medicines? There is a national shortage of Quinine, probably the most important medicine in countries with malaria. We have tried to order it for the…
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Shanksteps 112 Another Miracle!!! I saw her when I got back from a trip to Maroua to buy saline. I got back and the nurse asked me to see a patient that had come in during the day. She had…