Nurse - communicating in remote areas : Ms Meg Fox

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We certainly didn't have telephones but the mission headquarters was in a place called Jos which is in central Nigeria and it was a wonderful area. It was high up in the hills and it was really like the holiday area of west Africa and a lot of colonial people went there, and so there were telephones there. We actually did have a little battery radio every place where there were workers. There were about six of us on our little station as it were and we just had this little battery radio and every morning we took it in turns to do this for a whole week. But like so many things in third world countries you know, they have to rely on generators for electricity. Mobile phones have made a dramatic change because people can get in touch with one another on their mobile phones.