sore throat

'An unexpected piece of heaven'

Doctor Ben Gaunt is puzzled. One of his HIV patients has just told him that he has run out of antiretroviral (ARV) drugs three weeks before he is due to collect his next monthly batch from the local clinic.

Gaunt calls the hospital pharmacist on his cellphone (there is no internal line) from a tiny, dilapidated consulting room in Zithulele Hospital in the former Transkei. He asks her to find the file of the patient who had been to see him because of "TB-like symptoms" and a sore throat.

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