My dad came across this newspaper article about the opening of a clinic in Musoma in 1957. He translated it from Swahili into Italian for me, and this is my translation into English. It's not seat-grippingly exciting, and sometimes perhaps not totally politically correct, but it's an interesting slice of information for my family history. It would be interesting to know what became of the Ikizu clinic: at least this was on the mainland. It was heart-wrenching when we went back to Ukerewe Island and saw the 100-bed hospital my dad had built virtually abandoned, with only 20 beds left and no mattresses, still with no water or electricity...

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