the HOFIT: February 1999

Saturday, February 20, 1999

Nigeria

The University Hospital at Ibadan (1984). We had just had another tropical downpour!

Friday, February 19, 1999

The workshop at Ibadan (1984). The picture was trying to capture the general disorder, not the happy crew!

Thursday, February 18, 1999

The hospital at Ilorin (1984). You can just make out the white statue of the nurse. I was "challenged" seconds after this photo was taken!

Wednesday, February 17, 1999

Victor working away.

Tuesday, February 16, 1999

Group 5 G-100 Hospitals

The G-100 hospital up in the Asir mountains at Ballasmar during construction in 1984. I was lucky enough to visit again, many times, during my SATCO days in 1990-91.

Another one from Ballasmar (1984). Terry Hackler, Frank Acari, Phil Hackler and Geoff Hannis. It was taken on a Friday morning (so that's why Frank is still in his pajamas)! I loved it up in those hills. And I even used to wear a watch back then!

Sunday, February 14, 1999

The G-100 hospital at Al-Namas. About 40 minutes drive from Ballasmar, this one was also re-visited for equipment maintenance in 1990-91.

About Me

After forty years working in the engineering support of medical equipment, and in new hospital projects both in the design office and "at site", I now consider myself semi-retired. Following army service in Hong Kong, UK, Germany and Saudi Arabia, I worked in Saudi Arabia (a further four times), Nigeria, Jordan, Oman (twice) and the UK Health Service. My earning skills have included hands-on installation, repairs, maintenance, inspections and technical support of medical equipment. Together with advising on biomedical engineering generally, planning equipment layouts, producing equipment listings, writing specifications, and assisting architects etc. These days I live as simply and cheaply as I can, and (as far as possible) on my own terms, keeping my hand in by repairing or refurbishing medical equipment or doing inspections and maintenance work, sometimes for charity groups. But what I enjoy most is developing computer software, as a quirky and obsessive coder happy to be immersed in thorny problems for months at a stretch. "Free as a bird", and without any permanent address (generally moving on from time to time), I still jog as often as I can.

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