Thursday 31 August 2017 Asanvari, Maewo Tonight’s blog is brought to you by the PCV Health team – Bob Natuman, Mission 3 Team Leader and Oral Health worker Dick Nakat, Eyecare worker Jay Watson, Eyecare worker Deb Allen, Oral Health Educator Bob Medical Mission 3 long yia 2017 hemi makem out wan narfala team blong […]
Wednesday 30 August 2017 Asanvari, Maewo Hi, name blong Steven. I’m one of the dentists on MSM mission three. I live in Melbourne and am recently semi-retired. I came to be involved with the MSM mission through Dr Barry Stewart and the Australian Dental Association Vic branch. This is my first trip as a volunteer […]
Tuesday 29 August 2017 Abwantuntora, Pentecost To follow on from some of the words Christer wrote yesterday, I would like to comment from a lay person’s perspective. Yesterday I was acting as a recorder for the dental surveys when Steven emerged from the surgery – picture a barren room, a bare concrete floor with the […]
Monday 28 August 2017 Abwantutora, on Northern Pentecost Island Imagine a teenage boy in the seventies, confined to an isolated, snowy mountain town in northern Sweden, where summers are three months of the year and 10 degrees, winter the rest, dreaming of a tropical island in the South Pacific. Imagine him borrowing every book in […]
Sunday, 27 August 2017 Loltong, Pentecost Island Ahoy me hearties!! So, Cap’n Jon has finally worn me down and nagged enough for the humble dental nurse on this intrepid adventure to put pen to paper (or finger to key). Being the team member with negligible sailing experience and sadly the only one to suffer the […]
Saturday, 26 August 2017 Loltong, Pentecost Hello to all our followers on this rather pleasant Saturday afternoon. We are anchored off Loltong on the northern end of Pentecost Island and the medical team has gone ashore to conduct dental surveys. We have this afternoon and tomorrow after church to complete 50 surveys, before we move […]
Thursday 24 August 2017 Melsisi, Pentecost After a long night dealing with unexpected boat traffic, the morning started bright and early with a crew breakfast and a morning boat run to drop Deb, Annette and our designated dental recorder Mark ashore for a busy day of clinics. With the rest of the boat crews primary […]
Wednesday, 23 August 2017 Melsisi After receiving steady drizzle for most of the night the crew and the medical team ashore awoke with high hopes and guess what we got – more drizzle. It was enough to wet but not enough to wash the boat. By 0800 we were loading the clinical stores aboard and […]
Tuesday, 22 August 2017 Homo Bay, Pentecost As dawn broke today a soaking drizzle covered the village of Pangi and Homo Bay. Fortunately, the clinic was set up in the church building. If you are imagining a soaring Gothic building with stained glass windows, you need to remember this is Vanuatu, in the tropics. This […]
Wednesday 26th July 2017 Lambukiti, Tongoa Island The swell was still breaking on the shore when we dropped off the medical team a little after seven this morning. With great athleticism they streamed off the front of the dinghy onto solid ground, well solidish black sand. With water streaming over the stern of the dinghy […]