A medical surgeon from Copacabana can continue his life-saving work in the famine-ridden parts of Ethiopia and Tanzania, after receiving the green light to return on humanitarian grounds. Dr Andrew Browning is an obstetric fistula surgeon for the Barbara May Foundation and has been travelling to Africa to work periodically for the past 17 years. His work operates parallel with his aunt Valerie Browning’s mission – running the Afar Pastoral Development Association (APDA) which helps bring development to the two million nomadic peoples of the Danakil desert. “I will assist her wherever I can and also operate on women with fistula contracted during the COVID lockdown. “Severely weakened by famine these women do not have the reserves to face labour, and the number of women dying in labour has dramatically increased.

Source: Ethiopian News September 14, 2020 03:10 UTC