moonlit hospital com-
\.£ pound I was puzzling
over how a woman had lost
all five of her babies to a
mysterious death, each time
within days of their birth.

Any day now :she was
about to have number six
and so her village elders
had sent her.to my 40-bed
hospital in the middle of
the jungle island that is
Tanna.

Was there some genetic

defect? Perhaps a bleeding
disorder. —. or.was this, as
some: of the nurses had
- speculated, the unthinkable.
Did I have a mass murder-
ess in. my over-crowded
hospital?
.. Suddenly, without warn-
- ing, I felt a horrific blow to
my lower back. I had been
shot.

so excruciating that first I.
was afraid I. was going to
~ die, then T'was afraid I was-
mt going to.
oT picked myself ‘up: ‘and:
limped back: up the hill to
~-. the hospital: On arriving, I
-. was somewhat relieved that:

my body. was coming from.
my) urine: was the victim of.

explained that I was going
“to need some pain’ control. -
~ The next thing I remember.
-Y-was lying in the maternity
“ward in the only vacant bed —
left in, ne entire hospital.

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Look at me now, I mused,
lying in a maternity ward in

‘the middle of a jungle, sur-
-rounded by a dozen preg-

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woman in the bed nent be-
side’ me who OH ©
-MOTHER!! — ‘the woman
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