Happy Belated Easter
During the Easter I had the oportunity to take a little break and go to Zambia and Victoria Falls and briefly in to Botswana and the Chobe National Park. On the roadtrip to Victoria Falls we stopped over in Lusaka to visit the Beit CURE hospital which is the closest hospital to ours, outside Malawi, where they perform Neurosurgery. The Beit CURE hospital in Lusaka has been running since 2006 and as far as I know they have been performing Neurosurgery since then. As of now they are mainly operating Hydrocephalus patients and performing VP-shunts and Endovascular Third Ventriculoscopies, this after 10 years of practice. This is very hopeful for our Project and very New practice at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital where we also perform mainly ETVs and VP-shunts. This is after having a neurosurgical ward and dedicated theatre for only 1.5years. We are also operating craniotomies and have done some spinal surgieries. What we have to remember is that this practice is still in its' pionering stage so every Surgery apart from ETVs and VP-shunts are considered Major Surgery.
Anyway, we had a lovely visit and were very well taken care of at Beit CURE, so thank you very much ladies for takng care of us.
After Lusaka we drove to Livingstone, Zambia for a quick stopover before we took a pontoon Ferry over the mighty Zambezi River to Botswana. We stayed for 1 night in Botswana and squeezed in a brilliant dinner of Eland, Kudu and Impala meat and an Early morning Game Drive in the Chobe National Park. Mid day we took the Ferry back to Zambia and our lodge in Livingstone. Our Mission in Livingstone was Clear, to see 1 of the seven natural Wonders of the world: Victoria Falls... it was Absolutely Magnificent!
I ofcourse had to jump of that Bridge, twice, doing a a Bungee jump and a Bridge swing. We all did a zip line across the gorge from Zambia and in to Zimbabwe. If that is not the coolest way to travel in to a country I do not know what is.
Have fun and live a little!
