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Lane Robson works as a Pediatrician for Doctors Without Borders at the Maternal and Child Hospital in Kenema Sierra Leone.

Giant African Snail

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- July 09, 2019

Achatina achatina, a large air breathing land snail, grows up to 7 inches long and 2.5 inches wide.

These snails are on the path I take to reach the MSF truck that takes me to the hospital.

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These feet are made for walking

- July 13, 2019

Archispirostreptus gigas, the largest millipede known, grows up to 15 inches and might have as many as 256 legs. These feet are made for walking, and that's just what they do, and one of these days these feet are going to walk all over you, do da do, do da do, do da do, do da do, do da do, do da do Ok feet, Start walking.

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him how to fish and he eats for a lifetime.

- July 10, 2019

The MSF hospital in Kenema is modern proof of this principle. Sending international health care workers is good, but teaching local doctors and nurses is better. The ratio of international to local health care workers in most MSF projects is about eight to one. This is because MSF is committed to leaving a legacy of better trained national health care workers. There has never been many doctors in Sierra Leone. Not during the British colonial period. Not since. Never. No wonder health care has languished. No wonder this poor country has the highest maternal mortality in the world! About ten percent of the few doctors in the country died in the 2014 Ebola epidemic. Imagine losing a tenth of the doctors in Canada! MSF saw this happen and decided they would be part of the solution. MSF decided to build a hospital for mothers and children and to focus on educating the next ge...