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and spat, “There’s no fuggin’ easy way to say it, lad, so here goes.” Passing a
fax sheet to MacIain, he preambled, “It’s from Jack Lozi in Benaco, Skye.”
Turning away from his friends and toward Lake Kivu for more light,
MacIain read . . .
“Brother,
“I have heard and my heart is broken over the loss of our sister Layla. I know
she rests with God as you read this. She would also understand why I have no
choice but to ask for your help in the midst of our mourning and sorrow. Without
it, PFW is lost in Benaco.
“Bless you, Brother, for buying us time a month ago with the donated
antibiotics from your pharmaceutical manufacturing contacts. We’re sharing
with everyone. In fact, the United Nations World Health Organization head of
mission has asked PFW/me to be Benaco Health Sector Lead. We were endorsed
by the likes of International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Doctors
Without Borders and CARE. However, the antibiotics are down to a few weeks’
supply remaining. Add to that this week’s disappearance of INGO IRISH AID’s
Dr. Liam Kelly. I don’t need to know specifics, but I know you and Sean have
‘contacts.’ We need your collective help to know who and where they have taken
him to start, even when in the middle of Benaco triage. If that goes unanswered,
we’re all targets.
“We’re swimming amongst 400,000 refugees and counting. We had only
enough resource and capacity to treat half of them BEFORE your donation.
Several of the respective INGO mission heads (Ian? Marcel?) have worked with
you over the years and insisted on you, by name. They feel you’re one of only
three world-wide they know who can create sufficient public health infrastructure,
medicines provision and supply chain capacity in time to treat those presently in
need and prevent epidemics. We’ve spotted thousands more running this way for
their lives confirmed by aircraft fly-over. After the last Health Sector meeting, one
INGO lead even inferred that they may not remain engaged if you don’t come. In
God’s name, can you come? In Christ,
Jack
“PS: Doctor Ian Moseley from CARE added, “Tell that daft MacIain we need
him NOW. We’re well and truly in the shit, mate – as bad as Sudan’s Hunger
Triangle. He owes me for feeding his patients in Waat! Hell, he owes me for his
poker losses from Sudan! And Lozi? Make sure the Southern bastard brings a
translator, because none of us can understand his ‘English.’”
Sean returned everyone to the present with, “Listen, I know you’re on
fumes, Highlander. I would have refused to bother you, but it’s Jack. We all
know he’s had to bail us out twice in 60 days and even covered surgery for

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