Life after debt
ETIENNE ODIMBA, a surgeon on secondment from the United Nations, is doing his daily round of the wards at the Kaedi Regional Hospital in southern Mauritania. He has little medicine to offer his patients, and most of the operating equipment needs servicing. Emergency cases are being referred to the general hospital in the capital, Nouakchott, six hours away by road.
This article appeared in the International section of the print edition under the headline “Life after debt”
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