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Doctor Paul Williams and his partner Nurse Vicky Holt started their two-year placements at Bwindi Community Health Centre in Uganda in April 2006. They have extended their placements until at least Summer 2008. The Health Centre was set up in 2003 by American missionaries Scott and Carol Kellermann. The clinic provides healthcare for an area covering 40,000 people.
The centre was set up particularly to help care for the local minority group, the Batwa who have been displaced from their natural home in the forest. They are some of the poorest people on earth. The under-five mortality for landless Batwa exceeds 60% and many women die in childbirth.