Issue no 3, 2000 -- English edition -- home
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“All the children were severely ill, and some died from malaria, under-nourishment and AIDS. It was hard to see and experience. The ‘good’ I did was to relieve my colleagues from some of this grief and share it with other personnel. The grieving parents were taken care of by staff and relatives. I had to abandon our concept of ‘working through crisis’.”
This extract is from a report by Dr Agneta Runbom, who worked a second time for the Doctor Bank at the “nun’s hospital” in Mutomo, Kenya. She goes on to say:
“My impression is that this year there are more under-nourished patients, both children and adults. The poverty is great, and concerns were voiced about the rains that had not come. Blight and drought await.”
The very active dentists in the Rotary Doctor Bank are raising funds for a new generator to the hospital in Mutomo, Kenya, where they work in a relay. Karl-Erik Aronsson, from Karlskoga in Sweden reports:
“Thanks to the Rotary clubs, we’ve come so far that half the cost is covered. We hope to have the other half from the Rotary Foundation. I want to encourage my colleagues to go out and talk about the Doctor Bank and what they’ve experienced. There are many generous members in our clubs.”
“It’s been very enriching and educational to work among a people like the Masai, the most tradition-bound of Kenya’s people. The humble, yet proud nature they radiate becomes an indelible experience.”
Jeep-doctor Carl Tersmeden from Avesta, Sweden, writes his report from the Lake Magadi relay in Kenya. This was the ninth time he worked as a Rotary Doctor in Africa and the Phillipines.
“The jeep line from Magadi works in my judgement very well. The work that Rotary Doctors can do is both good and meaningful.”
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