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Dr Aisling Walsh is a paediatrician working in Gulu Regional Referral Hospital, Uganda.
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VSO volunteer Chris Jary, a doctor from the UK, is working in a severely under-resourced district hospital in Masindi, Uganda
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I’ve saved more lives in my two years in Uganda than in 30 years in the NHS.

Chris Jary, VSO Volunteer, Uganda

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Social worker Robin Borausiki with her colleague Catherine Bedford at Modilon Hospital in Madang, Papua New Guinea. VSO volunteer Catherine Bedford is a Family and Sexual Violence Mental Health Nurse.

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