Hopelessly Devoted

Diana Butler, 63, Launceston, Tas. I snapped on fresh gloves as I went to check on my next patient. Just then, I overheard my colleague Dr Saba*, 28, telling someone about her family in Tanzania. “We don’t have electricity there so I hold a candle so my father can operate,” she explained. It was 2005, I was 44 and worked as an emergency nurse at Launceston General Hospital. As a single mum to three boys, Benjamin, 19, Johno, 17, and Harry, 14, life felt hectic, but as Saba talked about the struggles in her homeland, I realised how fortunate we were. Her hospital in Tanzania had no running water, just 34 beds, and her patients were poverty-stricken. It was heartbreaking. “We should do something to help,” I suggested to my…

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