Kroo Bay on the BBC

Below is the beginning of an interesting article on the BBC about a medic in Kroo Bay. Please visit the BBC for the full story.

Diary: Sierra Leone slum medic
7 March 2008

Medics running a clinic in a coastal slum of Sierra Leone's capital, Freetown, are keeping a diary for the BBC News website about their work. In this instalment, Adama Gondor brings us the latest from Kroo Bay clinic, where nearby shanty houses have been built on a rubbish dump on the banks of the Crocodile River.

"We have a chicken pox outbreak in the community at the moment - you can see a lot of children and adults going around covered in white."