Posts Tagged hospital
February 19, 2009 at 11:41 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged hospital, malawi, psychiatry, visitors
Colin Dewar is a consultant psychiatrist and friend from Falkirk in Scotland, who came to visit recently for ten days. I asked him if he wanted to contribute to my blog, and I’m delighted to say that he agreed! A new person’s eyes and observations are always interesting and welcome.
When people say that Malawi is a beautiful country they don’t say whether for mountains, lakes or plains, even though it has all of these. My first impression was of greenness, much of it from maize that surges from the ground during the rainy season. There are a few trees left after deforestation, wherever the land is not cultivated, as on a few rocky hillocks where goats graze. 
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September 30, 2008 at 6:41 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged hospital, zomba
We are at the mercy of the hospital transport system, and already it is becoming tiresome. We’re supposed to be picked up at 7h30 in the morning, and brought back after we “knock off” at five*. It actually arrives at any time from ten minutes early to two hours late in the mornings. So I sometimes opt for the more time-consuming, but more reliable and independent option of walking and minibussing to town , and then walking to the hospital. It’s a 20-minute walk from town to the hospital, and this is what it looks like.
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