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Issue no 3, 2000 -- English edition -- 8 pages
Issue 2, 2000 -(go to)- Issue 4, 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, Charlotta Boerman, Görel Day-Wilson, Carl-Axel Ekman, Yngve Plym Forshell, Tanja Laanterä.

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

Page 1

  • New chairman sees bright future
  • Now it is soon time for Doctor Bank Week!
  • Sälen doctor got prize

Page 2

  • Why we were not there -- editorial
  • Mosquito nets could have saved them
  • Those who most need care receive none

Page 3

  • Jeep sloshed through mud
  • Poisonous snake fell from tree among patients
  • World’s happiest boy
  • Alone on duty around the clock
  • I got to do my favorite work

Page 4

  • Would have died without treatment
  • Each day we saved lives
  • Gloomy picture of Zambia
  • Harder to come home

Page 5

Page 6

  • Young woman became nun
  • People strive, Africa is not hopeless
  • 975 patients at the dentist
  • 3-year old girl got new foot
  • Here’s baby Karl

Page 7

  • Here’s one happy boy
  • Many mission hospitals closed or on the brink
  • Jeep-doctor “kidnapped”
  • 4797 children examined
  • Great gift to Mutomo
  • Many ideas. large donations
  • 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 Peter Loogna, Sweden, Sur
Fredrik Rejman, Finland, Sur
Maseno Hospital, Kenya Knut Sanderud, Norway, Sur
Maseno jeep, Kenya Ulla Hoel, Sweden, GP
Gabriella von Döbeln, Sweden, GP
Mashuru jeep, Kenya Ann-Sofie Karlsson, Sweden, GP
Bertil Malmodin, Sweden, GP
Nandi Hills jeep, Kenya Bodil Haastrup, Denmark, GP
Bibi Roels-Karstel, the Netherlands, GP
Mutomo Hospital, Kenya Bo Lundgren, Sweden, Den
Ingrid Nordqvist, Sweden, GP
Mutomo Dental, Kenya Claes Nelson, Sweden, Den
Ugunja jeep, Kenya Charlotte Almqvist, Sweden, ID
Ulla Vånsjö, Sweden, GP
Lake Magadi Jeep, Kenya Barbro Rydberg, Sweden, GP
Homa Bay jeep, Kenya G V A van der Meer, the Netherlands, GP
Mohammad Sarban, Norway, GP
Sabatia Eye Hospital, Kenya Ulrika Lidén, Sweden, Oph
Chake-Chake, Pemba, Tanzania Christina Lennér, Sweden, Gyn
Markus Roos, Finland, Gyn
Ndolage Hospital, Tanzania Arne Kjellgren, Sweden, Sur
Chikankata Hospital, Zambia Jörgen Bjarnesen, Denmark, Gyn
Mpongwe Hospital, Zambia Gunnar Isaksson, Sweden, Sur
Kenya Ear Foundation Ingvar Persson, Sweden, Den

Abbreviation key:

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

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Created: 28 October 2000