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Survival
There was no rain today. The sun shone brightly this morning and it had risen by the time I ran to the beach. Choosing a secluded spot, I...
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- Aug 5, 2018
Settling In
It rained during the night and the dirt roads to the main tarmac road turned into mud puddles. Rain clouds gathered ominously in the...
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kwankew
- Aug 4, 2018
Back to Cox’s Bazar
This morning I rose early to run on the beach. There were people playing soccer, a few runners and many walkers but the hazy sky hid the...
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kwankew
- Jan 18, 2018
PTSD and Fate Hanging in the Balance
This was my last day at the camp! It was clearer this morning. In the corridor of the store-front leading to the beach in my run this...
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kwankew
- Jan 17, 2018
Sun Set over the Kutupalong Camp
I thought yesterday was my last time to the Obat clinic at Kutupalong Camp but at the last minute it seemed the three UK doctors decided...
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kwankew
- Jan 16, 2018
Woman Headed Households
It took us an hour and a half to get to Obat, riding in a van (an improvement over the bouncing Tom Tom) and walking through the...
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kwankew
- Jan 15, 2018
The Hard Realities: Witness to Atrocities
Today was very foggy, I could only see between 30 to 50 feet in front of me. I went running around 6:30 am, the air was moist and felt...
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kwankew
- Jan 14, 2018
Another Day at the Hope Clinic
At the clinic, I ran into Bonnie, a familiar face, the mid-wife who was with me in South Sudan, she was volunteering with Hope Foundation...
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kwankew
- Jan 13, 2018
A Red Bundle
Most of last week’ volunteers stayed a week and left, three male doctors from UK joined us. Right around late morning at the Hope Clinic,...
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kwankew
- Jan 11, 2018
The Dispossessed
I went back to Hope Clinic working with my translator Russel, saw 27 patients mainly aches and pains, respiratory infections and...
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kwankew
- Jan 10, 2018
A Bleak Future
I was dropped off Obat alone by the roadside to the Obat guest house even as the medical coordinator had not been able to get in touch...
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kwankew
- Jan 9, 2018
At the Obat Clinic
Four of us were dropped off at an intersection and five of us including a worker from Obat, another NGO squeezed into a Tom Tom to travel...
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kwankew
- Jan 7, 2018
Balukhali Camp
There is a beach close by the hotel we are staying and after a few days of no exercise, I found my way there and ran early in the morning...
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kwankew
- Jan 6, 2018
The Nightmares Began
It took us an hour and a half to get to Balukhali Camp. On the way we passed paddy fields, harvested long ago with cows and goats grazing...
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kwankew
- Jan 5, 2018
The Rohingya Crisis
The Rohingya are an ethnic and religious minority in Myanmar, who are facing what the UN has termed “classic ethnic cleansing.” Despite...
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kwankew
- Sep 8, 2016
Should You Still Care about Ebola Now that the Outbreak is Over?
I volunteered twice as a doctor during the Ebola outbreak of West Africa; once at the peak of the outbreak in Bong Ebola treatment Unit...
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kwankew
- May 12, 2015
Another Earthquake
It would take at least two days or more to do assessment in the Dhading District and it has been raining there, it seems imperative that...
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kwankew
- May 11, 2015
Staying Put in Kathmandu
Shanti Nepal did not supply us with a list of VDCs to do further assessment so we could not proceed today. Instead we split up into two...
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