Dr Nick Coatsworth
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Jul
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We had to go down by canoe and we're leaving on a canoe waving and everybody's in tears and they know that there's going to be no free health care for them the day that we leave.
Yeah, small community and only two things driving the economy.
So MSF being there and paying people to work for us.
We have a staff of about 30.
And they spend?
And they spend.
Yep.
And then there's an Italian logging company.
Now, this is an important story because the Italian logging company weren't paying its workers.
So we were the only source of money into this town.
And when we leave, it's not just healthcare that goes.
It's not just friendships that go.
The economy of this place collapses.
And I thought, geez, you know, for all the romance of this and for all the good that we were clearly doing for a period of time, eventually you've distorted the economy.
created a problem now the night that we left uh so we were on the canoe we were out there wasn't any mobile no mobile phones satellite phones so we go down the river and get to the next stop and we get a call and the nurse that had worked for us for longest and he got the biggest payout because we're doing french labor laws right you've worked with us for 10 years we give you a stack of cash just like you would here like a redundancy payment like a redundancy payment
So the coppers find out, the police, the Congolese police, they find out.
That he got a payout.
They knew that everybody got a payout.
They knew that he got the most.
They stop him in the street.
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