Don't Crack No Jokes.

It hurts to laugh after an abdominal surgery you know. That's what some of the post-surgical clients found out first hand - they were subsequently begging for straight faces. Only nine from the Upper Mazaruni were able to make it onto the packed schedule in Bartica for the visiting RAM surgeons as many more were disappointed.

Pictured here is a rare glimpse of Mt Roraima during the flight this afternoon between Paruima and Phillipai in that district of Region Seven.

One interesting outcome of the surgical expedition, said one health worker, is that many more candidates are coming forward for the first time in these isolated villages. They previously had no reason to hope that their hernia or 'goadie' could be healed through the system. One sixty year old Arakuna tribesman that did see the team had been suffering for over four years.