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Today Fran had her most exciting vocational expereince in at the Ministry of Health. The team (minus Greg) met with with and was able to gain some very interesting facts, figures and stats about the number of health workers (and an idea of the size of the shortages) across Zambia. We also were able to learn about some of the (few) incentives that health workers have to work in rural areas. A quick summary of how they get staff there is - MD's - must do some of their internship in rural areas, if they accept a role in a rural area they are entitled to a car and the more remote it becomes the greater the financial / housing incentives are. For other staff there are also similar (although not at the same pay scales) incentives. The scaring thing is the shortage of health and allied health staff in the country, but at least they have an idea of how many they have, where they are needed and how many more they need. Thanks to the Minstry of Health.
We then revisited the Gem shop and some purchases were made (two happy ladies in the team and one happy TL's wife when we get back)
In the mean time Greg visited a research farm that grew (wait for it) lucerne. I'll leave it to Greg to expand on this.
The rest of the day for the rest of us was spent travelling to Livingstone. Unfortunaly we were sent on two flights, with Fran Ryan and I arriving in the ealth afternoon, and Greg and Jodie about half an hour after our presentation to the RC of Livingstone.
Yes, our final presenation was delivered by the three of us. I delivered both my presenation and subed for Greg, Fran played Jodie and herself and Rayn had the luxuray of being just himself (but then had to run heads and tails). Overall the presenation went very well and the club (and over 25 visitors which included a group of Rotarians for the US and the youth exchange members from the US (Hannah) and Canada (Jolene) (who become our honourary GSE little sisters) . Jsut sad that this our final presenation in D9210 (and it ended up being our final presenation) was missing 40% of the team.
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