Zithulele in the South African Medical Journal

It's not a scientific article - those will come in time - but we were profiled in the January 2008 SAMJ. If you have a fast link, check it out at http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/viewFile/860/399 (the download is about 5.6MB)



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IT’S A HARD LIFE

Couldn’t resist sharing this after-work pic taken a few weeks ago. Such are the joys of working rurally with friends. It was a gorgeous sunset, so we enjoyed it (and the green rolling hills with sea in the background) eating mussels on crackers, while our city friends were sitting in traffic.

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Team Conference

We started 2008 by setting aside a weekend to strategise and set some goals for the year. Sometimes the challenges are so big we’re not sure where to start, but at least now we know where we want to end! We’ve got exciting plans for HIV, management clinics for malnutrition follow-up, hypertension, epilepsy and diabetes, we learnt more about occupational therapy and spent time discussing the Jabulani Rural Health Foundation and how to link in with it. We also had some great meals and conversation.

Picture (L-R): Back: Ben & Taryn Gaunt, Shannon Morgan, Karl le Roux, Simon Chappell, Riana Dippenaar, Becky Chappell.

Front: Kate Sherry, Sally le Roux, Honey

So long,farewell

After a really good year, December was a month of many goodbyes. First to go were Ali (our com service dentist) and Mich (our com service OT). Those of us left behind for Christmas enjoyed yet another excellent Jamie roast and then the Beach Bums (Jamie, Lyndall, Brad, Sam & Jules) departed in dribs and drabs on their various exciting adventures around the world.

Top left to bottom right -
Sam (dr); Jules (computer programmer); Brad (dr); Jamie (dr); Lyndall (physio)

Mich (OT)

Our community service colleagues have been out of the top drawer this year: hard working, competent, reliable and a whole lot of fun. We are going to miss them loads. Thanks for a good year, you lot. God bless for what lies ahead and feel free to come back any time!