Namibia - The difficult Years

Namibia - The difficult Years
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Heavy mortars started shooting hard volleys from the camp with ear-splitting noises. The theatre room was shaking and the instruments jingled on the instrument table after each round. «That is really like war», Lizette said when the impacts were heard not far away. The twitch of fear flickered over her pale face. I did not think otherwise when I said that shootings at this time were rather normal, but that one would get used to it. «But these are bad news», Lizette replied and I agreed silently. The operation was finished and the bandages were put on. The patient was lifted onto the trolley and carried to the recovery room. I thanked the staff for its cooperation.
The doctors left the theatre room for the small tea room when a missile whizzed so close over the corrugated roof that the whole theatre building was shaking. The asbestos boards in the ceiling creaked and crunched and the windows rattled. The toilet door slapped against the wall and the exit door banged into the lock. The nurses ran nervously in the corridor up and down, while I thought of the last decisive battle when much was at stake for the whites. These were the words of the brigadier he said in a morning meeting. Regarding the final stage he brought the allegory with the volcano that could erupt at any time. It became clearer with each day that the white painted and white blinded apartheid had reached its brink. We changed the clothes and left the theatre building. The face of Lizette was pale, since the missile had 'whizzed' deep into her mind. We parted at the back entrance to the outpatient department. Lizette had not finished the sentence in which she mentioned the word 'future'. I went to consulting room 4 to see some patients before lunchtime. The waiting benches were fully packed.
The reader is confronted with the various aspects of the work performance under compromised and often critical conditions, and with the various conflicts between the truth and the temptations of untruth.

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Helmut Lauschke. Namibia - The difficult Years

The blown-up bridge over the Cuvelai has been restored

Horrific thunderstorms and apocalyptic lightning

A young superintendent in major’s uniform

A civilian successor as superintendent

The brigadier intervenes in the morning meeting

The final battle was in full swing

Visit to the Mission hospital in Oshikuku

Dr Johan spoke about ophthalmology

Crippled children and adults were waiting along the passage

A brutal night raid of Koevoet

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The blown-up bridge over the Cuvelai has been restored.

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Why these specialists still visited Oshakati Hospital was not fully understood, since the two civilian specialists, though downgraded to senior medical officers, worked in general and orthopaedic surgery. The army personnel got surgical treatment at the military hospital on the airbase in Ondangwa. It was thought that their visits had not only to do with medical support, but with the reconnaissance by searching for PLAN-fighters as well when they did the surgical ward rounds. This kind of intelligence service was easy for them by reading the history and evaluating the injury, since all the doors were open for the military authority which controlled the activities in the hospital. On the other hand it was true that Swapo enjoyed the broad support from the black population.

There was no illusion that any improvement in the working conditions would not come as long as the military and the whites ruled the regulations and mistrusted the hospital as an institution for hiding the enemies and Swapo-sympathizers. It was against the oath on the South African president and white apartheid flag to treat the enemy, whereas impartial and equal treatment was compulsory according to the Hippocratic oath. The gravity of the political schizophrenia became even more visible in the miserable conditions with the defective facilities. The many promises for repair and replacement from the white-run Bantu-administration and its stuttering Boer on top remained empty. It was an old and widespread political advice to keep up the white opportunism. The white stooges kept quiet when medical ethics became tortured and crippled. I thought of the psychological impact that should come on the young doctors after graduation from university with the ethical oath when they had become second lieutenants in the SADF and had to take the other oath on the South African president and the white apartheid flag. They stuck in the schizophrenic gap as they treat one patient and had to refuse treatment on the other patient. It was the excess after having lost reasonableness and humanity which caused the deep-going conflict between medical practice with medical ethics and its opposite by following the military order in regard to the political absurdity in the arrogant apartheid system.

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