In Lankien, life is very very busy. Being TechLog means that one can rarely leave the confines of the Clinic Compound, as generators, water pumps, and everything else depends on constant attention. None of us ex-pats get out more than once a week, except to go to the airstrip and receive a plane, or for Continue Reading »
Southern Sudan has fought on-and-off for the last century both amongst its own tribes and over issues of North and South division. Today is a very quiet day both in the Hospital, and in Lankien in general. There has been no drumming, singing, or dancing, none of the usual Sunday parades. It is a bit Continue Reading »
Anybody who remembers the first Star Wars movie will recall the monster in the sewage-crusher that our heroes got trapped-in. I went to check up on a latrine which we were decommissioning in our ‘TB village’. This is a compound of some twenty tukuls, mainly residential, where patients suspected of having tuberculosis live, whilst being Continue Reading »
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MSF asked me to write a Christmas peice. Here it is: Christmas in Lankien, South Sudan Mission, Eastern Upper Nile Region, Medecins Sans Frontieres-Holland. Rupert Allan is currently working in South Sudan during a very interesting time in its history. The coming referendum is expected to create the birth of a new nation. His job, Continue Reading »