The TV-team always asked the same question

“Why are you here?”

On Monday a Peruvian TV-team spent five hours filming in and around the hospital.  The thing they really wanted to find out was why so many volunteer workers (missionaries) are at Diospi Suyana.  The final film will be broadcast across the whole of Peru in a couple of days.  Since 2006 the TV-channels are amongst our best friends in Peru.  They provide publicity and a certain amount of security in an environment full of corruption.

Interviewing Swiss nurse Ricarda Wiederkehr.
Looking over optometrist Dorothea Töws‘ shoulder.
“Srta. Melanie Friesen, why do you work in Peru as an x-ray assistant?”
“Dr Steffen, what made you leave Switzerland?”
Speaking to one of our patients: “Why did you take the long journey from Puno to Curahuasi upon yourself?”
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