insectivore

if only i were, then i would be in a gourmandary of delights. i write this in the glow only of the computer screen, as the power circuits will not support having the lights on inside at the same time as outside, or something. As a result i am sitting in an ever-thickening cloud of insects, despite cunningly distracting a good lot of them by pointing a torch at the oppsote wall.a large shiny one keeps getting in the way of the cursor here, a bit like a cat sitting on a newspapaer just when you are trying to read it.

sad news for the World Medical Fund - one of our two clinical officers is to leave us at the end of the week to work in the capital city, Lilongwe. This means more work for the remaining incumbent and that I am actually needed for my remaining few weeks here.

Tomorrow we go back to the government hospital, which i have come to dread, as - to use a well worn phrase describing such things -the conditions are appalling. it is not very clean, very overcrowded, very understaffed and hoplessly under-equippped (someone nicked the ultrasound scanner recently), the patients are really unwell with conditions that are never seen in England, as well as conditions well known to me but have developed so badly that they have become difficult to discern.