A Peace Corps Experience: Health Care on Island Malekula
(Room French)
03 Jul 15
9:00 AM
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10:15 AM
A retired nurse practitioner with previous experience in developing countries will present some of the successes and the challenges of community health care work in a remote and geologically unstable south pacific island country (Vanuatu) that has very limited access to the modern conveniences of water, electricity, internet or transportation. Note that the last documented cannibalism in this tribal society was as recently as 1984 and that this newly independent country is still growing into sustainable self governance. Peace Corps workers have been supporting capacity building for 26 years.