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Issue no 2, 2000 -- English edition -- 8 pages
Issue 1, 2000 -(go to)- Issue 3, 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 Görel Day-Wilson, Carl-Axel Ekman, Tanja Laanterä and Inger Kollberg.

Copyright ©2000 Rotary Doctor Bank. All rights reserved. Material may be quoted if properly attributed.

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

Page 1

  • Now we protect more than 3,000 children
  • Listen and learn...
  • Sälens Rotary Club first champion!
  • New round in championship

Page 2

  • Malaria, the terror of tropical Africa -- editorial
  • 8 children in the same family died before age 1
  • He was like a wild animal

Page 3

  • Ghastly doctor trip in Congo
  • Panic near in rush
  • Like in Sweden 70 years ago

Page 4

  • The fight against malaria
  • Rotary Foundation contributes to wells
  • Death-a part of life
  • Million from Marks RC
  • "Every child everyone's child"
  • Children donated mosquito nets and glasses

Page 5

Page 6

  • Report from Guatemala
  • Money-boxes for Water for Life
  • Big help through Poverty Fund
  • "As Rotary Doctor, once again respected"
  • Great effort in Värnamo
  • Rapid response to emergency appeal

Page 7

  • Tough in Garissa - lack of water and electricity
  • Can now walk 300 meters
  • 56 newspapers wrote about the Doctor Bank
  • Golf for the 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 E J Bok, Sur, the Netherlands
L A M Peeters, Sur, the Netherlands
Maseno Hospital, Kenya Ulf Ljungqvist, Sur, Sweden
Ruud van Oppen, Sur, the Netherlands
Maseno jeep, Kenya Martin Nilsson, GP, Sweden
Mashuru jeep, Kenya Outi Helena Puttonen, GP, Finland
Nandi Hills jeep, Kenya Petr Novak, GP, Sweden
Soo Spangfort, GP, Sweden
Mutomo Hospital, Kenya Alena Novak, Ped, Sweden
Pieter Scheele, Sur, the Netherlands
Mutomo Dental, Kenya Lars Ralph, Den, Sweden
Ugunja jeep, Kenya Thomas Arvidsson, GP, Sweden
Lars Seligman, GP, Sweden
Lake Magadi, Kenya Helena Prochazka, GP, Sweden
Homa Bay, Kenya Lars Häggblom, Ped, Sweden
Homa Bay jeep, Kenya John O Vinge, GP, Norway
Ilembula Hospital, Tanzania Anita Aalto, An, Fnland
Mikko Aalto, Sur/Gyn, Finland
Chake-Chake, Pemba, Zanzibar Francis Kamwendo, Gyn, Sweden
Gamboula Hospital, RCA Gunnar Olofsson, Sur, Sweden
Judith Sundström, Gyn, Sweden
Kenya Ear Foundation Gunilla Andersson, An, Sweden
Helge Lyckberg, ES, Sweden
Anders Winell, 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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