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Issue no 1, 2000 -- English edition -- 8 pages
Issue 4, 1999 -(go to)- Issue 2, 2000

Photos (medium-size jpeg ~20-50K) are provided as links from article thumbnails into separate image pages for each issue and page. See yearly photo index for an image overview.

The photos in this issue were taken by Benny Assarsson, Görel Day-Wilson, Christen Henriksson, Gunnar Isaksson and Sven Lenninger.

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Contents
Doctors Abroad 2000 -- Complete list spans the year's issues.

Page 1

  • Small sum can save a child’s life
  • Children...
  • We approach a million!

Page 2

  • The constant worry -- editorial
  • Will the hospital survive?
  • Fight against time

Page 3

  • Poverty, starvation
  • Doctor Bank doctor got new name
  • Terminally ill treated in shade of tree

Page 4

  • Jeep-doctor hopes for water bottles
  • 12 years at desert hospital
  • Learned more in a month than in a year at home

Page 5

Page 6

  • Drama over Sahara
  • Africa is "good medicine" for doctors
  • Doctor got malaria
  • Aid goes wrong
  • Doctor Bank towels great Rotary effort
  • 33 doctor postings -- ONE doctor!
  • 1100 children vaccinated against polio

Page 7

  • Poverty Fund lifeline for many
  • Witchcraft? Husband fled.
  • President defies church
  • Blind waited days for eye doctor
  • 122 doctors in German Doctor Bank
  • To you with a VCR

Page 8

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Doctors Abroad 2000
The Doctor Bank sends doctors, dentists and other specialists to work for a minimum of six weeks each in "relays" at hospitals and in jeep-doctor circuits.
Currently, most postings are in Kenya.
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Garissa Hospital, Kenya J W Hoefakker, Ur, the Netherlands
T J P Kouwenhoven, Sur, the Netherlands
Frans Kragt, Sur, the Netherlands
Leif Lindblad, Sur, Sweden
Maseno Hospital, Kenya H L de Smet, Sur, the Netherlands
Maseno jeep, Kenya Ulf Carlsson, GP. Sweden
Lotta Wennius, Ped, Sweden
Mashuru jeep, Kenya Stig Cronberg, ID, Sweden
Monica Sundqvist, GP, Sweden
Nandi Hills jeep, Kenya Tanja Laanterä, GP, Finland
Mutomo Hospital, Kenya Agneta Runbom, GP. Sweden
Mutomo Dental, Kenya Karl-Erik Aronsson, Den, Sweden
Per Bondesson, Den, Sweden
Ugunja jeep, Kenya Maj Rönnergård, GP, Sweden
Lake Magadi, Kenya Lars Engardt, Ped, Sweden
Klaus Karlsen, GP, Sweden
Carl Tersmeden, GP, Sweden
Ndolage Hospital, Tanzania Arne Kjellgren, Sur, Sweden
Chake-Chake, Pemba, Zanzibar Ulla Ottosson, Gyn, Sweden
Hans Westholm, Gyn. Sweden
Chikankata Hospital, Zambia Göran Norén, GP, Sweden
Sylvia Norén, Midwife, Sweden
Gamboula, RCA Gunnar Olofsson, Sur, Sweden
Kenya Ear Foundation Lennart Persson, Den, Sweden

Abbreviation key:

GP: General Practitioner
Sur: Surgeon, Den: Dentist
Gyn: Gynaecologist, Ped: Paediatrician,
An: Anaesthetist, Or: Orthopaedist
Ur: Urologist, ID: Infectious Diseases,
ENT: Ear-Nose-Throat,
ES: Ear Surgeon, DS: Dental Surgeon

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