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For my elective I went to Hopitaly Vaovao Mahafaly (Good News Hospital) in Mandritsara, an isolated region in the North-East of Madagascar. It is a relatively small hospital (40 inpatient baeds approximately) but serves a wide area, many patients travelling for miles and miles to get there. I spent my...
According to the World Health Organisation, 1.4 million children died in 2002 from diseases preventable by routine vaccination.[1] In Malawi there is only one doctor per 100,000 people (compared with one per 164 in the UK), in an overburdened and under-resourced health system where trained doctors and nurses are migrating...
