Excerpt from draft of "Apostle to the Pygmies – The Doctor Jerry Galloway Story”
During the second week of March, I performed the first amputation ever done in Pendjua. It was the very first because the people preferred to die than to submit to an amputation. This patient had chronic tropical ulcers of the lower leg for the past several years. When he came to the hospital, there was no shin bone left and his blood count was at ten percent. I told him that he either had to have an amputation or return to the village, as there was no amount of medication that could help him. The man agreed to the amputation, and after receiving medication to raise his blood count, the operation was completed without any complications.
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