Dr. Tom Catena, an American, is saving lives in Sudan's Nuba Mountains: He is the only doctor for a population of over a million people living in the remote region. Fox News Digital spoke to him.
The Nuba Mountains of Sudan may be the last place one would expect to find an Ivy League-educated doctor living among the people, but Dr. Tom Cetana would not have it any other way. A native of Amsterdam, New York, Catena attended Brown University. He played football and studied engineering. Yet Catena, a self-described 'cradle Catholic,' became involved with the evangelical Christian group Campus Crusade for Christ and realized he wanted to dedicate his life to the mission field.
'We've got to take care of anything that hits our door,' he said. The hospital has a 'limited' lab, an X-ray machine and an ultrasound. It is powered by solar panels and a backup generator. 'We don't have a CT scan or an MRI,' he said – so sometimes he has to operate on a patient just to know what is happening internally. However, a lack of modern medical equipment was not the biggest challenge facing the doctor, he said.
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