I survived a battle with Ebola six years ago. Now I’m worried about health care workers exposed to COVID-19. BY: Adaora Okoli — As I read the story of two health care workers who contracted COVID-19 in Wuhan, my heart raced and a tight knot gathered in my chest. I had been there. They were both …
Jacques Sebisaho, MD, is from one of the remotest places in Africa: Idjwi island in Lake Kivu between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. While neighboring countries have been beset by wars and violence Idjwi has remained a peaceful oasis, albeit one left behind by many development advances that have been made in better-known …
The first time I met Josiane at Kigali’s largest public hospital, she burst into tears. A young, skinny orphan with a heart complaint, she had been in and out of hospital for over four years. During that time, she had received no visitors. Looking at her thin frame, I asked if she had eaten that …
World Family Doctors Day on May 19 was a moment not only to celebrate the commitment, talent and dedication of family physicians across the world, but also to recognise that access to a family doctor is not the reality of all Nigerians. There are about 40,000 registered doctors working in clinics in the cities and …
One day, a student presented to me the case history of a couple—I will call them Mary and John –who had been trying to conceive a child for seven years without success. They could not afford even the most basic medical tests—hormonal tests for her and sperm count tests for him–to determine what the issue …