REMEMBERING THE TWO SIFANUs THE YOUNG SIFANU AND OLD SIFANU AT LIMULUNGA CLINIC

I appreciate that Limulunga clinic did much towards my health when I was young. I used to suffer a great deal from Malaria attacks because where we lived was the Litunga' s Banana Plantation the place where me and my friends used to play hide and seek games. We never feared snakes in there instead Snakes found solace somewhere because we were always in the bananas running and climbing the banana stems. Therefore the plantation was also a breeding place for Mosquitoes. These Mosquitoes could then move to our homes to feast on our bodies and we could pay dearly to such attacks and Limulunga Clinic became like a home to me due to being admitted time to time for treatment. I won't forget those damn itchy tablets called Chroloquine that used to make me crying the whole night due to their itchy like you are being stang by mosquitoes all over your body. country rustic wears for prom party

It is during such clinical visits that I came to be familiar to the two Safanu whom the people of Limulunga valued most.

Limulunga Clinic during the 1930s to early 1970s was under the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society (PEMS). The Clinic during early 1970s was under the care of one white woman whom the Locals called Misi in reference to Miss. I remember her being tall with good looking curled hair. She was a well trained medical officer in Midwifery and she could not tolerate a pregnant woman during labor failing to push hard in order to deliver. Such women used to earn slaps and pinching between their thighs until the baby is born. Misi indeed was very kind and found of babies. Any baby that was born benefited gifts from Misi.

Misi worked well with the two Sifanu and let me describe these two men.

THE YOUNG SIFANU

He joined Limulunga Clinic as a medical assistant I am sure he was between 26 - 27 years old in 1973. He was a very humble young man most loved by patients. He helped Misi in many clinical activities especially at Maternity area.

Young Sifanu continued his work especially at the Antenatal Clinic when he worked at Senanga General Hospital during the 1990s until his retirement in 2010 at the same Hospital. I became lucky having worked with him in the Men's Christian Fellowship (MCF) Senanga UCZ. He also used to attend to me when taking my Children for under Five Clinic at Senanga Hospital. Sadly he died and May His Soul Rest in Internal Peace. I will always remember your goodness and an once humble young clinical Officer at Limulunga Clinic when I was just 6 years old and feared injections. I remember how you used to hold my legs so that I am given an injection.

THE OLD SIFANU

He was a well trained Midwife and one who got more experience even when Misi left. He could attend to very complicated deliveries and he became well respected by Limulunga women. When he died we lost a man who earned himself a big name when midwifery during the 1970s was work of elderly women who helped Misi at Antenatal section.

I wonder whether Misi is still alive. If so she is now an old woman. She spoke Silozi well though she resorted to using Sotho Language. Misi also loved Silozi Culture and at Kuomboka she could put on a Silozi traditional dress known as 'Musisi'.

She owned a Landrover Station Wagon of Cream in colour. When travelling to Mongu Boma, she could use the Barotse plain 100 meters parallel the Limulunga - Mongu Forrest age. There was a road that Listings Yeta III had once prepared on which he used to drive his Landrover the first man to own a vehicle in Barotseland. Misi abandoned her vehicle when she retired and left for France. Two or four spare parts of the vehicle are still visible at Limulunga Clinic.

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