JUNGLE MEDICINE: Trekking through mud, rivers and jungle to provide free medical care

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

· Dr. Georges Bwelle is bringing free health care to rural villages in Cameroon

· Bwelle and his team spend almost every weekend seeing hundreds of patients

· There aren't many doctors in the west African country; just one for every 5,000 people
In Cameroon, there is only one doctor for every 5,000 people, according to the World Health Organization. For comparison's sake, the ratio in the United States is one doctor for every 413 people.
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Interview with Hester Paneras, Police Commissioner for the African Union - UN Mission in Darfur

Hester Paneras, Police Commissioner for the African Union - UN Mission in Darfur. Photo: UNAMID

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11 November 2013 – In June 2013, Hester Paneras was appointed Police Commissioner for the African Union – United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), which was established to help stem the suffering in that region of Sudan, where since 2003 fighting has led to the deaths of and estimated 300,000 people and displaced some 2 million more. Many of the displaced are surviving in camps in-country and many, particularly women, are vulnerable to a range of violent threats.

The first woman to hold the top police position in a peacekeeping mission of this magnitude, Ms. Paneras brings to the job over than 30 years of experience in policing. She joined the Police Service of her native South Africa in December 1978, starting with grassroots level patrol and detective beats before rising to the officer ranks in 1984. She first worked in UNAMID as Deputy Police Commissioner for Policy and Planning from July 2010 to July 2011.

UN News Services spoke to Ms. Paneras after she helped launch a website for the UN International Network for Female Police Peacekeepers as part of UN Police’s efforts to meet a goal of 20 per cent women in UN missions by 2014.

- See more at: http://www.un.org/apps/news/newsmakers.asp?NewsID=98#sthash.NkbrMPhb.dpuf 

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