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When working in the Coordination office in the capital city, field visits really help us put things in perspective and really understand what we are working towards. I had a chance to visit 2 of our support bases in Kisangani and Goma and one of our...

It’s my last week in Teme Hospital, still full of surprise and excitement. I had another urethral injury with repair with rail road technique early in the week. This time, I used the bougie used by anaesthetist for endotracheal intubation for...

It was an exciting Monday morning. Unfortunately, the final outcome was very disappointed. I was called by Emergency Room doctor at 10:45pm last night. There was a man admitted with a stab wound at left front chest wall with active bleeding and...

It’s another busy week. But the tiredness was driven by the excitement of last two days. Early this week, we had admitted a young man whom was hit by a car on left chest wall. Chest X-ray showed blood in left chest and collapsed left lung but no rib...

I have performed my seventh laparotomy case in Teme in this morning. It’s another case of gun shot wound at the back, on right side of spine. The bullet stayed at left side of abdominal wall, just beneath the skin. Judging from the course of the...