Saturday, July 23, 2005
In memoriam
On Wednesday 21st of july my friend Herry died. He was completely healthy and then that day his heart stopped and he died that instant. Many people from the DSS and Impact went to Utete to get his body. We then drove to Dar es Salaam to bring him to Muhimbili Hospital bec. neither Ikwiriri nor Kibiti has a cooling room. So yesterday they did post mortem and didn't find anything. eventually they said that it was respiratory cardiac failure... So after that we went to his family's house. They had already prepared everything for his arrival.
We went to say pole to the mother and grandmother, the men went to the father and uncle to say pole. then we had to eat food and the coffin with the body came. There was a short sermon and then we proceeded to go to kinondoni cemetery where he was buried. IT is very awful. He was just about to get a new post (that's why he went to Utete to be introduced to the district medical officer) and he was very happy to work with Impact being responsible for adverse reactions of sp+art (malaria combination therapy) in rufiji. he also planned to go to Norway to do a masters in public health. He is the first born son in the family...
How can someone just die like this?!
God gives, and God takes away.....
I hope we shall meet again in heaven...
