I am writing this pre-departure blog from the airport in Paris. It has been a hectic few days to say the least, so this is the first chance I have had to put some thoughts down in writing before h
Etoile, the French for “star”, is used as a name here in DRC and, with its hint of magic and Saint-Exupery’s Little Prince, I’m going to use the name for a patient who’s very special to th
As the sun went down and the ridges of the Mitumba mountains turned a smoke blue, a line of mothers sat quietly on a wooden bench in front of the nurses' station in the paediatric tent.
Long journeys in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are a part of the dizzying extremes in this country dripping with precious minerals but where one in five children die before their fifth bir
