Issue no 2, 2000 -- English edition -- home
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A tragedy recently occurred on one of the Doctor Bank jeep lines, the so-called Ugunja relay.
A nurse who was almost ready to give birth rode in the jeep. A few days later, she had a stillbirth.
"The infant had been dead in the womb for some time," says jeep-doctor Sven Åke Heström, from Falkenberg, Sweden. "It can't be right that women in advanced pregnancy are in the jeep on rutted roads. I took this up with the hospital administration in Maseno, and it was decided that women after five months pregnancy should preferably not, and after six must not work on the jeep lines."
President Sven Persson of the Malmö-Oxie RC writes:
"Yet another bottle filled with allowances. It contained 3360 Crowns, and the contest 'How much in the bottle?' raised a further 400. In all, 4060 Crowns deposited into the Doctor Bank postgiro 900472-2. Now a new bottle is in circulation!"
Mrs Sofia Wasserman, from Haparanda, Sweden, recently celebrated 100. She received no present, but well the Doctor Bank. She and others had raised 2100 Crowns.
Dentist Hans Klänge could take with him 9000 Crowns from Huskvarna RC when he left to work at the Doctor Bank dental clinic in Mutomo, Kenya. He used the money for a solar panel lamp and some other equipment there.
A new initiative by the Ulricehamn RC: the Rotary sock. Dentist Sture Green, who is the Doctor Bank representative in the club, sent in a list of clubs within district 2360 who bought 381 pairs of socks. That raised 7620 Crowns for the Doctor Bank. Perhaps just the beginning…
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