Mauritania - Life after debt.(Brief Article)
Economist (US), The, September, 2000
NOUAKCHOTT
ETIENNE ODIMBA, a surgeon on secondment from the United Nations, is doing his daily round of the wards at the Kaedi Regional Hospital in southern Mauritania. He has little medicine to offer his patients, and most of the operating equipment needs servicing. Emergency cases are being referred to the general hospital in the capital, Nouakchott, six hours away by road.
From the outside, the hospital looks like a cluster of futuristic space modules rising out of the earth. It has even won an architectural award. Inside, Dr Odimba (who is used to difficult places, having been in the Democratic Republic of Congo) has almost nothing to work with. He needs to operate on a patient; but there is a risk of haemorrhage, and he has no blood for a...
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