Maran Fazzi Maran Fazzi

Global health & adventure in tanzania

I am Maran Fazzi, a medical doctor from the Netherlands, specialised in Global Health and Tropical medicine. I currently work at Endulen Hospital, which serves the people—predominantly Maasai—living in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania. Alongside my clinical work, I am an expedition medic and a course director for the WLS:MP course (formerly AWLS), and I have completed a mountain medicine course in Austria.

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Elspeth Pitt Elspeth Pitt

Top tips for working with Op Wallacea (Opwall)

Opwall takes senior school children and university students to participate in conservation and biodiversity research programmes around the world. In their more remote sites, such as Indonesia, Honduras and Madagascar, a medic is included as part of their site staff. Opwall has been running its programmes for 30 years and is well established at many of its sites, meaning the infrastructure, risk assessments, medical equipment and evacuation plan are all well-developed – a real asset for new (and not-so-new) Exped Medics, as your role is simply clinical with the hard work already done.

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