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February 2019
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Mozambique: Visit from the Former Vice Minister of Health
When I arrived in Mozambique back in 1990 the government was still Marxist and aligned with the former Soviet Union. Throughout the 1980s the nation was the poorest country on earth. At the beginning of that decade, only two countries had fewer doctors per capita than Mozambique. So Americans were rare and trained surgeons even scarcer. From 1990 to 1998 the Lord brought a lot of attention to the surgical program in the small government hospital where I worked five miles outside of Nampula. The work being done at this 150-bed hospital became known throughout the north of Mozambique. People trekked from all over Nampula...
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