A Radiologist Visits Africa
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vj]ja rns? standard of education and so forth. As a result I spent much time in bush Co hatching meals being prepared in mud-huts, in shanty towns looking at living sche IOns' w^h sanitary inspectors seeing conservancy schemes or malaria control trile .es> and with Ministers of Health discussing their plans. And in order to get a nativlr^Pressi?n of the pattern of disease I spent as much time seeing patients in rour,^ ^lsPensaries and hospital " casual "
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