Just back from the Upper Arafundi and Upper Karawari Rivers, where the CEO of Boram Haus Sik, Dr. Louis Samiak, kindly joined us for rounds in several villages where no one had ever seen a doctor. But the very novelty of the visit made it hard for people to appreciate the gesture of Dr Samiak spending half his holiday to dispense meds in these remote corners. One man, for example, was diagnosed for an ulcer and given free meds, but compelled his relatives to paddle hours downriver to Amboin aid post [where there certainly is no doctor] for a 'real' diagnosis by the APO. Elsewhere, the Meakambut people came down from the caves for a day to the river for Dr. Samiak, who was able to provide camoquin to several with such inflamed spleens that were they to stumble in the bush they could very well explode. But they scolded us for having to travel to their clinic instead of having the doctor choppered to their doorstep on the mountain above.
So kudos for all the good doctors out there, especially Dr. Louis Samiak, whom we are now pleased to have join our team as a medical researcher.
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