This post is not amusing but it is also not a tragedy.
Somewhere down the page, I posted items from Mangochi District Hospital, where we were due to take students next week.
Sadly, on Sunday there was a major fire caused by an electrical surge after a blackout. The out-patient area caught fire and is gutted. Family and maternity clinics were lost. The locals and staff tried to put the fire out but the town does not have fire-fighting equipment, so a whole building was lost.
Mercifully, no staff or patients were hurt and the rest of the hospital is OK. (The pharmacy store is on the right of the picture and the main pharmacy is just behind it, even closer to the flames. The wards are further away.)
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