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Tropical trip no holiday for physician

WV doctor ran Sudan clinics

By Deana Lancaster

News Reporter deana@nsnews.com

DR. David Wilson was knecling on a dirt path trying to sew up a boy’s leg, which a dog had sunk its teeth into.

‘> “He'd been badly bitten. It was nighttime and I was work- ing by a kerosene lamp.”

The mosquitoes were vicious, making it difficult to focus on the task at hand.

The boy’s family quickly cut and gathered branches from nearby trees and began to gently beat Wilson as he sat on the ground, to keep the “mosquitoes at bay.

' #it was really quite a sight to see.... me sitting on the ground trying to bring the parts of his leg closer together, and all of them gently beating me with these branches.”

It’s just one of the memo-

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fies Wilson has returned home with from his two-month stint in South Sudan with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) — Doctors Without Borders.

The experience, from mid- June to mid-August, was a long way from — West Vancouver, where the 43-vear- old has both his home and his obstetrics-focused family prac- tice.

His assignment in Africa was to oversee nwo health clin- ics in the communities of Le and Lankien, where loca! staff have been trained by MSF to treat tuberculosis and the tropical disease kala azar.

He also treated villagers for everything from malaria, snake bites, and war wounds — including a year-old bullet wound that hadn’t healed

roperly — to leprosy. P ET hat was the | first time I'd seen it,” he said.

No doubt. There isn’t a lot of leprosy in West Vancouver.

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DR. David Wilson, of West Vancouver, spent two months in South Sudan this summer working with Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders). This little boy suffered from the tropical disease kala azar.

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