
 |  |  |  | A young child in the paediatric intensive care unit, Tirana |
 |  |  |  | Another young patient in the paediatric intensive care unit, Tirana |
 |  |  |  | An incubated baby in the paediatric intensive care unit |
 |  |  |  | The Mother Teresa Paediatric Hospital, Tirana |
 |  |  |  | The paediatric intensive care unit in 'Puke' Hospital |
 |  |  |  | Julia encountering some bleak weather soon after arriving |
 |  |  |  | Nora (second from right) with Albanian doctors and nurses |
|  |  Albania diary

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 Julia Kenkre is a trainee doctor. Like all British medical students, as part of her course Julia was encouraged to spend some time working abroad to learn about medicine in a completely different setting. Julia chose to go to a European country which only opened its doors to the West in the 1990s - Albania.
Julia was fairly sure she could cope, but as her audio diary reveals, only just.
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