The evenings in Kampong Cham come alive with young people on motorbikes. Three riding abreast equals at least six teenagers socialising as they cruise through the streets. Five is the most bodies I’ve sighted on a single moped to date. Helmets are an optional rarity. Another regular sight is these wooden wheelbarrows which have many … More How Many Cambodians Does It Take to Ride a Motorbike?
Living in the Tropics comes with its own set of challenges, especially when you are working around the Tuberculosis bacterium. Because it is such a potentially dangerous disease and transmitted through the air, infection control measures against Tuberculosis, known as “airborne precautions”, are an important protection. Airborne precautions in a health care setting require well … More Tuberculosis in the Tropics
Kampong Cham is on the tourist trail for houseboats on the Mekong, which seem to anchor here at least a few times a week. At the riverside in the town centre is a stretch of about 300 metres of expatriate-targeting restaurants and cafes with westernised food options, meals of $4 instead of the local … More Houseboats on the Mekong
Phnom Penh is a city of wide boulevards crossing narrow litter-filled lanes. The crowded streets are swarming with motorbikes ducking and weaving between trucks, mini buses and cars, all diligently transporting a surprising variety of people and goods. The traffic rules are loose, if not completely absent. Whole families travel on mopeds in various configurations, … More A Week in Cambodia
It turns out that Red Cross in East Timor (CVTL) have a “water team”. They have emailed me to explain that they may well be able to assist with the request for water access for the small village who lost their water in the recent disaster. They need the request for assistance to come directly … More Timor-Leste Correspondence
In October 2012 I travelled to East Timor to volunteer at Bairo Pite Clinic (BPC) in Dili, for three weeks. BPC provides free health care to those in need, and is the most visited health clinic in East Timor, with over 530 people attending the clinic per day (with a single doctor reviewing patients, coordinating … More Timor Tuberculosis Tales
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