Got in to Zambia late
Friday night after a typical African trip – flying from Harare to Johannesburg in South Africa before coming up here to Lusaka. Easier just to fly through Johannesburg than it is to fly direct in many of these countries. And man, Johannesburg is gearing up for the World Cup next year. The whole airport has been redone – sparkling clean.
Spent the weekend here with a doctor who does work for the group InterPlast – they do reconstructive surgeries for people across Africa. Dr. Goran is one of only two plastic surgeons in the whole country. He does hundreds of surgeries a year from cleft pallet surgeries to burns and snake bites. This weekend he saw some patients post-op, then went to a vet clinic and did an operation on a dog that had some tumors on its head. I went back Sunday and saw him do a surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from the foot of a yellow lab. Interesting stuff. I’m meeting him again in a bit as he has a surgery scheduled for this afternoon on the thumb of a little girl who was badly burned awhile back. Should be interesting.
July 27th, 2009 | by David in Travel
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