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  • Peter Francis says:
    17 December, 2012 at 12:05 am

    Your NTD annoyance
    Right you are. You will have a list though For brevity’s sake, may we segue on to prioritise. The Nigeria list, when I was there, – 2007, might begin with malaria, cholera would follow quickly, CDC used to publish it all. De-hydration and, not always, ‘local medical practice’ (especially on ailing children/infants) would seriously figure.
    Diagnosis at base level
    If there are diagnostic problems, which there are, with the typical examples, what chance for your list? Often testing/analysis equipment or specialists, and their essential prerequisites are not to hand.
    Reporting
    Of the highly contagious diseases, I remember cholera. On a trip (vol NGO work) I went to a riverine area, towns surrounded by swamp. Towns, in our terms, surrounded by small hamlets of bamboo and palm frond. Pleasant African countryside, in the dry season. Rains and aquifers levels bring silent death. These three villages were decimated by cholera, and/or by mass fearful exodus by the fishing communities that populated them as the disease hit. I saw the events happen, over time. I reported to the State Government, of course there is a system, but it was chaotic, that was the system.
    Education and Empowerment
    Knowledge, methodology, aid funds, equipment – pass them into local hands, when appropriate. If monitoring is the task fine, often I have seen NGO efforts seeking to take over tasks the Gov. has to do, sooner or later.
    I have volunteered for Mr Save the World and his Foundation in Africa. I just laugh now, I choke I really do.
    I have touched on ‘humility’ or ‘humanity’ ‘compassion. HHC submission I shall offer by and by
    You have a very pleasant approach, are caring and …. I like it.
    Bye and best rgds
    (Peter) Dick, Peterborough UK
    16dec12




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