It's been a busy few weeks here in TZ, mainly patient avoiding, but there has been some productivity! Last week was highly productive for Andie and Lizzie - with a few rectal examinations in the bag for Lizzie, and some time in the lab looking at malaria slides. I had much less success, and was almost the victim of one of their malaria investigations! Stuck in the house with a thumping headache, the world spinning for about 3 days, and a few confusing moments o...

Dr Drea in da house! A long weekend at the beach is ibn order as we have been working extremely hard of course and it is a bank holiday on monday. :) We spent most of the week in minor theatres where they use absolutely no pain relief to debride wounds etc. Oooooweee. On friday we saw a man with three buttocks!! His right one had become two after a fight with a man with a machete!! He was quickly stitched back to his normal anatomy when it was realised that he...

Hi all, Missy Elliott here to carry on Dr Drea's good work and hopefully cover everything from the past few weeks without sending you to sleep! Last week was spent on surgery with a fantastic surgeon! Unfortunately, and very ironically, he's the only government surgeon in this district AND he has Parkinson's disease. He's the cliche surgeon with the tremor that noone in the UK would want working on them. Seen some pretty savage burns, neck surgery and abdominal ...

Hi everyone Sorry it has taken so long to udate the blog but there is one very slow and very popular computer in the whole hospital... and obviously we are all extremely busy!! Since we last wrote, we have been joined by the last of our rap trio- Lizzy Rascal. Woop. the weekend before last we visited the Usumbara mountain range in Loshoto where we stayed in St Eugene's convent- it was beauiful! They made their own jam and cheese which, needless to say was d...

So we arrived safe and sound after 24 hours of travelling! Currently it is just Andie and Loob in Muheza whilst Lizzy Rascal lives it up with the lovely Chris in Zanzibar! Currently there are 8 students at Muheza and they have started our education in basic swahili, told us where the essential 'soda man' can be found for a refreshing bottle of coke and warned against the salads unless you want shigella and non-stop pooing for a couple of days!!! Today we have b...