Russian-Educated Doctor Without a Stethoscope

The health ministry claims a scarcity in specialists. Doctors in specialist training will receive a stipend.

Fransisco Rosarians Enga Geken

January 16, 2023

MERI Hawa was fighting for her life. The 79-year-old woman was transported in an ambulance across a meandering road in Wolowaru, Ende, East Nusa Tenggara, in critical condition to see a neurologist at the Maumere General Regional Hospital (RSUD). In mid-December 2022, Meri, a patient at St. Antonius Jopu Hospital in Ende had experienced a hemorrhagic stroke.

“She was in poor condition. The problem is, there is no neurologist here,” s

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