Edited by Dr John Wynn-Jones with Dr Dewanto Andoko
From the field · Indonesia
A new breed of rural doctors
Dr Dewanto Andoko Family Medicine Specialist · RuralWONCA Council
PhD scholar at Khon Kaen University, building rural GP training pathways for Indonesia and a rural palliative care module for the Rural Institute of Learning. Runs RuralWONCA's website and social media.
Oebelo, 2018
“You do not bring medicine into a village. You are let in, if you are lucky, and only after admitting how much you do not know.”
Dr Agustinus Rudolf Phyma “dr. Puji” · Head, Puskesmas Kanggime, Highland Papua
2018 Posted to Puskesmas Kuari — solar power, no internet for two years, supplies once a month.
2021→ Rebuilt Puskesmas Kanggime: a wooden hut to a 30-strong, nationally accredited clinic.
10,313 people across 308 km².
A Morning in Nunggawi
“A doctor in Papua's highlands spends most days treating what has gone wrong. This photograph holds the other half of the job: watching children get to be exactly what children are built to be.”
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When despair for the world grows in me
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I come into the peace of wild things …
For a time I rest in the grace of the world
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