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Paperback God's Needle: How Lily Gaynor Brought Hope and Healing to the Land of the Witchdoctors Book
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ISBN: 085721456X

ISBN13: 9780857214560

God's Needle: How Lily Gaynor Brought Hope and Healing to the Land of the Witchdoctors

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In 1957 freshly qualified nurse and WEC missionary Lily Gaynor set sail for Guinea-Bissau, to live among the Papel tribe. Tuberculosis, malaria, and typhoid were rife. Children were grossly malnourished; witch doctors flourished. Lily set up a clinic under the mango trees, administering penicillin ('God's needle'). Medical care didn't stop there: pigs, cows, rabbits and hens all passed through Lily's hands. Many villagers suffered agonizing toothache:...

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