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Victoria Maxey

University of East Anglia 2011

Nursing, Tanzania Dar es Salaam

I had the chance to monitor and examine women during labour and perform a large number of deliveries. I was also able to get involved when women needed interventions such as putting in catheters, cannulas and also performing artificial rupture of membranes, episiotomies and suturing post partum.

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Rebecca Hurley

University of Birmingham 2011

Nursing, Ghana Takoradi

Breakfast and dinner is cooked by Ophelia which is incredible!! There is something for everyone, whether you are vegetarian or the pickiest of eaters she will cater for you.

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Fiona Gulley

University of Birmingham 2011

Nursing, Ghana Takoradi

The weekly barbeque on Thursday evenings is definitely the highlight of the week. As well as some delicious food and dancing to catchy Ghanaian music, one week we were treated to some cultural dancing and drumming.

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Sally Thompson

University of Birmingham 2011

Nursing, Ghana Takoradi

I worked on the A&E department and also worked occasionally in the evenings on the maternity and neonatal ward. These two weeks gave me the once in a life time experience to become hands on in areas of work unfamiliar and usually off-limits to me.

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Rachael Adair

University of Liverpool 2010

Nursing, Tanzania Dar es Salaam

Not only did I see exacerbations of conditions that are less prevalent in the UK, such as malaria and HIV, but I also had an insight into how UK conditions such as CVA's and UTI's are treated in a developing country.

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