Word: connaught
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Later that same day, I walked from my village--about three miles' walk--to one of the peacekeepers' bases. Then they took me to the hospital about three days later. A German Doctors Without Borders doctor did the operation on my arms at Connaught Hospital in Freetown. After the operation, I slept for two days. I couldn't speak because of my mouth--I was just looking around. They were feeding me from a drip. It was a week before I could eat or drink. After three weeks, my wife came to the hospital to find...
Ever since the rebels were driven into the countryside, they have used brutalization as a kind of strategic device, hoping the horror of war would lead Kabbah to sue for peace. In Freetown's Connaught hospital, doctors began reporting last April that they were seeing an enormous number of mutilations, as well as women who had had foreign objects inserted in their vagina. Aid workers say pregnant women, normally highly respected and well treated in Africa, had had fetuses cut from the womb while they were still alive. Rebel soldiers slashed one woman's ankles so she could...
Most vaccine production is carried out by five major pharmaceutical companies: Merck, Smith-Kline Beecham, Connaught, Merieux and Medeva. But according to Dennis Panicali, president and CEO of the Cambridgebased Therion Biologics Corporation, it's the small biotechnology firms which are experimenting with more novel techniques for producing vaccines...