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RECIPE FOR BUSYNESS • two tired doctors • donor agencies • sixty bed hospital • rumours of Cholera • equipment odds and ends • two questioning UK med students Take the 2 doctors firmly in both hands, cover with demands…

THERE’S SOMETHING THERAPEUTIC about writing a newsletter today. I mean, it’s good to step aside and take stock of life here, but also the physical fact I’m managing to sit in the house for long enough to get this done…

I’VE JUST SPENT A WONDERFUL WEEK in the cool Highlands with other doctors from the PNG Rural Medical Society. We were on a course on Surgical Care in the District Hospital – a good level for me, as a non…

My first four weeks of Rumginae Hospital Experiences A mother in the pushing stage of labour for 16 hours coming in from the bush. The baby dies and the mother has damage internally. Tackling postoperative pain without paracetamol or codeine…

Meet some of our team at Rumginae Hospital, the maintenance team for my new house at Rumginae. We’re actually the Missionary Team in the North Fly region, an international bunch representing Pioneers, MAF and UFM missions, but this week you’d…

I trekked for 8 hours with about 150 ladies then stayed in a bush material tent, squashed up with people from our district. Curious people surrounded me wanting to hear me speak and observe everything I was doing. “She does…

My experience of a villagers death in a Papua New Guinea Village My first inkling that the week was about to take on a new direction. Our “cousin” who was a middle-aged father of two teenagers had died during the…

I have to say that language learning is nothing like what I expected. The books I read before I came had me imagining sitting with someone each morning, doing dialogues and language drills and talking about photographs. Then I’d spend…

I know I work with Pioneers who specialise in working with people groups, but one of the treats of Papua New Guinea is that the local church is living and active. I work within their leadership and alongside their workers.…

I‘ll call her Suzie. SHE CAME WITH A 2YR OLD BOY, HER YOUNGEST He lay still, but labouring to breathe in her arms, a feeding tube through his nose. Her husband was with her. This was their first time to…