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THE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE STUDENT MAGAZINE

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MY INVISIBLE

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Managing EditorHagai Magai

Editorial Team

Bright Mwafulirwa

Senior Banda

Design

Innovative Africa

E-mail

[email protected]

CONTENTS

3. Introduction Earl Jay

4. Editorial Hagai Magai

5. News Reviews Symon Nayupe

7. Valentines Special Treighcy

9. Short Story & Poetry13. Hey Doc

Earl Jay14. Cross-Word

inspire15. Heroes and Villains Zaziwe Fatsani Gundah

17. Faces of COM Hussein Twabi

18. Swazi Republic


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Introduction


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editorial

Dear Readers

Te issue you are reading right now is the first Magazine from this generation of theUniversity of Malawis College of Medicine. Tis Valentines Day issue has been releasedwith the hope of keeping you interested and at the same time with the hope that we get

feedback on how we can improve in the upcoming printed edition of the Magazine.Nonetheless, the quality of the Magazine, is in our opinion, definitely one of the best Ma-lawi has to offer.

We hope you enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed creating it. Tanks to all those whohave supported us, especially the sponsors of this issue, Mat Academy (Zomba).

o all those who are celebrating Valentines Day with their loved ones, I wish you a dayfilled with peaceful waves of loves, and even the sky and the moon must testify to the

bonds of your hearts. Happy Valentines Day.

o the loners (ma Swazi), I wish you a happy independence day. Please, spend the dayin the warm embrace of your books to avoid romantic intimidation which comes when

you see lovebirds flying outside the window - with wings tightly wrapped around eachothers waist.

Best regards

Hagai MagaiEditor in chief


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new reviewsOPINION: COULD COM STUDENTS BE COMedians?

Symon Nayupe(BSc Medical Labo-ratory Sciences (Hons) Year 4)

It is very obvious that COM is not a place ordrama talk, less anything relating to it. Afer all wedo not do Arts here. But sometimes maybe observa-tions have shown that we may be COMedians, or inot, we are something related to that. Have we been

COMedy actors at one point? Or are we actors alltime? Could we be real COMedians? Observations by some individuals on campushave led to them making an assumption that Collegeo Medicine students could be COMedians. Indeed,at some points we have seen emails in our email ac-counts hosted by the College commonly known asWebmail though it is no longer such today. Webmailwas the email system that the students were usingbeore the whole thing was transerred to Gmail.

Well, that is not what we want to address hereso let us ocus on what we want to address. Indeedwe saw emails drop into our inboxes with titles likeo My Fellow COMedians or o all COMedians.At times we wondered since when did we becamecomedians as we were addressed in the emails.Some o us gathered ury at points realizing that wecould never be comedians, or i anything like that,we could be bad ones and thereore never wantedto hear anything like being a comedian. I wonder i

the students sending the COMedian-titled emailsnever got flaming emails rom an inuriated COMcommunity admonishing them never to call themCOMedians anymore. I am pretty sure they did.

Well. COM is amous or its more argumen-tative but less action population. When an issuearises one would be sure to see a trail o well docu-

mented, phrased and paraphrased emails in thenext ew hourssome with Biblical reerencesothers with academic reerences typical o aCOM student anyway. We are all the time surethat when such an individual makes a comment

it is likely to be ollowed by a particular indi-vidual or i not in that certain order one thingwe are sure o is the consistency o the names oindividuals who comment. Te unny and inter-esting thing is how these argumentors argueon things sometimes so straightorward that anargument would not be necessary. Could thatbe the definition or comedy according to theCOMedian? Interesting enough is the other act that

COM community is a mixture o differentcharacters and lives. Tat would be true o anyinstitution with a big number o people rom

various backgrounds, but the uniqueness withCOM is that both characters probably havesimilar weight and influence and when issuesarise they seem to be annihilating each otherand not producing anything beneficial at all inthe end. Let us take Chanco, or example. WhenChanco declares kayende it really happens

- kamayendadi. When the Polytechnic shoutsPoly Huwa! we are sure we will see them onthe Highway with tree branches and whatsoeverfits or a demonstration. Tese two have a senseo one direction or a good or bad cause.(Am not, o course, encour-

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aging one direction-ness or acts with bad inten-tions or bad courses. Am only admiring the senseo having one direction at times, not all times orit is impossible or all people to have a single des-tination or aim or course o action at one similarpoint). At COM its a different case all together.When the vicious young men and women shoutkayende, we are sure Te Evangelist has alreadydropped his long email calling or dialogue anddiscussion, and we would be certain that interces-sory prayers are already underway or the samecause. Such is lie at COMCould that be another

definition o comedy according to the COMedian? COMs student union leadership at timeshas been more o comedy than serious business.Unsynchronized rule with a president saying onething and the Secretary General saying the otheras directors and hostel representatives go theirown ways with their own gospel. But could thisalso be a point to support the assumption that weare doing comedy here and that we are eventualCOMedians?

Much as I understand College o Medicine

and the type o proessionals it trains, I think ourconduct is just right or what we are being trainedto be. As medical proessionals to be we ought toconduct ourselves in a way that in itsel sends ahealing message to our clients or whoever we maycall them. Afer all the clients themselves out therealready have a good perception o our characterbeore we even meet them. Frustrating such cli-ents with our despicable behaviours would lead toserious consequences like subsequent loss o trustin these clients.

In the same line I think COM students must

also understand that they are living in a worldwith a lot o ado where survival must be achievedthrough braveness and arrogance at times. Sittingdown and waiting or things to happen wouldyield nothing at all in a world where actions needto be triggered and constantly be kept in motionthrough active supply o orce. Otherwise wewould continue to act like comedians one act-ing this way, the other acting the other way andwould probably be rightly called COMedians.

Some faces of the new COMSUexecutive

Brany itus MithiVice President

Wanangwa DovieTreasure General

aonga BandaSecretary General

Felix KaminyoghePresident


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How do I love thee? Let me count the ways

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and the breadth and the height

My soul can reach, when eeling out o sightFor the ends o Being and ideal Grace.

I love thee to the level o everydaysMost quite need, by sun and candlelight.I love thee reely, as men strive or Right;

I love thee purely, as they turn rom Praise.I love thee with the passion put to use

In my gries, and with my childhoods aith.I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

with my lost saints, --I love thee with the breathSmiles, tears, o all my lie!-- and i God choose,

I shall but love thee better afer death.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning.


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Te pressure that comes every February is finding the perfect present that willjust melt your partner. Personally, going an extra mile to make me happy wouldbe perfect. With Malswitch, it is unrealistic to expect a weekend away or dinnerat 21 Grill or designer perfume.A card, box of chocolate and flowers are too ordinary but if you personalise themfor me my heart would melt under your charm like a bar of chocolate on desertsand. Call me old fashioned but I love it when things are made specifically for meespecially cards. A handwritten message would be sweeter pasted over the default

message that comes with the card. Knowing that the person put thought intowhat they bought and actually considered my likes and dislikes alone is highlyappreciated. I like to be surprised! Like if we ever walked around by Queens andI said I have always wanted to try chiwaya but never got to it and you took meto a chiwaya, I would love you forever. You dont need grand gestures to make myValentines extra special. Simply going that extra mile to do something nice andthoughtful will make a huge difference. So, for valentine, a simple sweet surprisewould melt my heart.

How to spoil Me on valentine

Treighcy

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I have been watching you a million times, I havebeen wherever you have been, I have eared what youhave eared most and perhaps with aith elt what youeel. For so long I have been procrastinating aboutthis, but a powerul surge within me has been arguingme to let the cat out o the bag and expose its contentsto your virgin and innocent heart. For so long I havebeen looking orward to your hug and perhaps an op-portunity to whole-heartedly lavish your sumptuousace and lips. My valentine, Rabecca, wherever you areknow that I am here incomplete without you.

It is not that I am a coward nor that I didnt havea rich vocabulary that would make walls o Jerichoall. A vocabulary better than that which has seenmany young men receive cold shoulders. But you haveto understandI have been looking or an opportunetime to let you know that you are my lost rib and thatI need you more than anything else here on mamaearth.

Let me start by apologizing or I have been inlove with you all this while, though without yourconsent. I your memory serves you right, I have beenapproaching you on several occasions; the first one be-ing when we were at High School back then in the late1990s. On that particular day, or your inormation, Ibuilt up all the confidence that I needed to convinceyou how I desperately needed you in my lie. Indeed Iwas ready to walk where you walked and to eat what-ever you ate. I resolved not to be like Peter who aferhurdles and tribulations denied the Messiah; I wasprepared to drink rom the same cup that you drank.Nothing about school was in my head by then. Each

time a teacher was in class I was daydreaming. I recallin one o those episodes how I visualized you andme sneak out o the heavily-enced school premisesduring weekends and spend the weekends together atKande Beach. I approached you in no time. Your replywas a blow unto my lie. Te least I expected rom you,though I admit I regarded you in high esteem. Yousaid we must prepare first or the examinations which

were in due course and you will you will tell me whereyour heart is afer the examination results come out.I must coness I lost direction because o you.

When the examination results were out I ailed miser-ably. Not that I was not intelligent, but I didnt knowit was the litmus test set beore me to qualiy orenjoyment o all the heavenly treasures within you.Your angelic smile, natural dimples combined withthe squinting brown eyes made me lose my mind attimes. Ten you came to me asking or my report cardwhich broke your heart much as the same you broke

mine. From that time it was never the same again asyou told me that I should be always on the first orsecond position or you to accept my proposal. Tisnews was shocking; it was as i I have been sentencedto lie imprisonment. I did not really understand themathematics behind all this, but all the same I tried allwhat I could do to make my name so I could acquireyou. I have to take this opportunity to thank or youmade me work extra hard in my school, and am gladto inorm you that am one o the best engineers thecountry has ever had. Ten I didnt hear rom youagain as we went our separate ways. We met again some years later as you came toKalanje College o Engineering, where I was doing myHonours degree in Mechanical engineering, or somesporting competition. At first I did not recognize youor you accumulated all the beauty or yoursel. I wasin the horns o dilemma whether to approach you.What i its not her? I kept asking mysel. I managedto swallow my pride and then we talked. Tis time Idid not waste much time but to tell what was troubling

my heart. Ten you told me to wait or your response,which by all means I did. Afer a week o long waitingyou told me that it was too early and that we still havea long way to get into a serious relationship that wouldsee us lead each other to the aisle. We were chattinghere and there, at least it was promising or I had hopethat it would finally work.

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my invisible valentine

short story & poetry

Philmon M Mphande


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Ten you cut all contacts with me. I tried tocalling, writing and all other available means butto no avail. Its been a long journey, still it is andcertainly a bleak one. I must tell you I have beenthrough trying times. Ten I ell in love with thisother girl. She was also beautiul, only in averagethough. Beautiulness has no measure but I can tellyou, you are ar above what people call beauty. Shewas a fine lady though, deep down my ribcage, myheart was still attached to you. I could not do oth-erwise but to think o you every time I was with

her until one day she asked me what I was thinkingabout so much. I broke the ice, and as I write the restis history or the relationship did not last long. I eltvery sorry or her as it hurt her much, just as youcause pain unto my soul. As per the say, love is in the air, it is my prayerand hope that one day we will both grow wings andfind it wherever it is. My valentine, Rabecca, wher-ever you are know that somebody is dying inside,somebody is desperate or your love and somebody

wants you so much just to hold your hand, to laughat the un-laughable with you and to whisper intoeach others ear while birds o the beautiul LilongweBotanical Gardens sing silent melodies in our world.Tat somebody is me.

Fin



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short story and poetry


Transplanted rib

I love the way you search my depthWith eyes so bright and blue.Te way you kiss; makes me run out o breathWith lips so sof and smooth.

Like the ountain that springs happinessyou sofen me with waters o care.

I love the way you say, I Love You,And the way youre always there.

Tat magical touch, leaves me enchantedSending chills down my spine.You are the rib that God transplantedAnd I am glad that you are mine.

Leonard Kambewa (Foundation)

CLOSER

I looked without seeingPreoccupied with images o my antasiesHoping or a vermillion banquet o rosesIn a seductive way that movies portraySo I shut you out when you cameYet I elt your presence when you movedcloser

You are a treasure to hold or eternityMore worthy than diamond and goldYou eyes spark me with a desire o longingFeeling the beats o our hearts in symphonyAs I learn the verisimilitude o loveJust afer I let you come closer

You are a thousand reasons to smile

For it is just a whisper o your voiceTat gives me courage to carry throughI wont try looking back; its a waste o mytimeI may trip and all but I will hold stillAs long as you are there; closer

akondwa Malamba

Winners.


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Seasons of love

A journey that started on hard ground, trail crowded with many a hound,hat spat a mound o taunts at us,hey spelt damn and doom,ut we remained firm and calm

Te hands endowed with dexterity,

ou crafed my hearts love in fine artYou are a beauty - ree o rivolity,o in you I see and smell security trait that yields my hearts liberty

Now that love is in the air,ets go and run a race at loves pace,ets go and hike ikondane peak,o its tall grass can give

s a standing ovation,hile the birds chant a anare,ssuring us a lie in ull care,s flowers offer a guard o honour,heir ragrant scent peruming our trip.

Mcerson Masida Msowoya

The Physics of My Life

You remind me Newtons third Law o MotionLike the upward orce you raise me to a climaxBut with gravity I alter and all.Like riction, you oppose my motion to stupidi-tyBut that just culminates my inertia.

When charged with happy momentsYou wash my soul with calming torrentsWhen I drown in a sea o my own transgressionI am recharged by your energetic passion

Tey are guessing your name starts with AFor you seem to be the alpha o my radiantsmileYour greatness is too surreal,

Maybe like the gravitational orce

So I might mess things upBy my prolonged radius o wordsSo lets just sayYou balance me on your beam o lieSimply put

You are the physics o my lie.

Loviisa Mulanje

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hey docEarl Jay

Nutrition Info for pears

Te mango season is over and the pear season is just beginning. Well,

beore you start having pear sand- wiches or lunch and supper, here are a ew tips on pears to consider.

Macronutrients

One medium pear contains about 103 calories, 27.5

g o carbohydrates, 0.68 mg protein, and 0.21 g o atand 5.5 g o fiber. Adults should eat a minimum o 14g o fiber or every 1,000 calories in their diets, ac-cording to the 2010 Dietary Guidelines or Americans.Tat means a medium pear contributes 26 percent othe minimum fiber requirements or a 1,500-caloriediet.

Pears have more fiber than many other commonruits, such as apples, oranges and peaches. When you

eat a pear, youll get soluble and insoluble fiber. Youneed the insoluble type to keep your digestive tractregular, while soluble fiber helps lower cholesterol.Te soluble type has another important job: it slowsdown the rate at which sugar enters your bloodstream.Even though a large pear has about 34 grams o totalcarbs, including 22 grams o sugar, the fiber stops thesugar rom causing an unhealthy spike in blood sugar.

Vitamin C for Immune Support

You will get about 10 milligrams o vitamin C romeating one large pear. Vitamin C neutralizes ree rad-icals ormed as metabolic byproducts, which preventsthem rom damaging healthy cells. White blood cellsin your immune system synthesize ree radicals, whichthey use to kill bacteria. Ten these ree radicals mustbe neutralized by vitamin C beore they damage the

white blood cells that produced them. Vitamin Calso promotes immune health by stimulating theproduction o white blood cells.

Vitamin K for Bones, Blood and Brain

Vitamin K helps produce proteins your body needsto make blood clot and to regulate bone density.Emerging research reports that vitamin K may alsosupport your brain, where it helps produce special-ized lipids, according to a review in the March 2012

issue o Advances in Nutrition. Vitamin K may alsohave an anti-inflammatory effect in the brain. Onelarge pear provides about 8.6 micrograms o vitaminK, or 9 percent o a womans and 7 percent o a mansrecommended intake.

Minerals

Like most ruits, pears are high in potassium andlow in sodium. A single medium pear has 212g o

potassium and only 2 mg o sodium. Other mineralsinclude 16 mg o calcium, 0.3 mg o iron, 12 mg omagnesium, 20mg o phosphorus, 3.9 mcg o fluo-ride and 0.2 mcg o selenium.

Keep in mind that even though pears are a richsource o a good number o nutrients they are stilllacking in several nutrients essential or a healthylie. So supplement your diet and eat a larger varietyo oods.

Lastly happy Valentines to all.


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1 Sense Organ(3)3 Muscle pain (5)5 Solid Water (3)7 Same (4)8 State o sickness(3)9 Pattella region (4)10 Anatomical specimen (7)11 Inventor o the compound microscope-Robert --. (5)13 pain (4)14 Slang term or a mental health proessional(6)15 Nutrient (7)16 Swell (6)20 Person involved in medicine (5)

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Zaziwe Fatsani Gundah

heroes&villains

Zaziwe Fatsani Gundah considers the ounder o MalawisCollege o Medicine

JOHN DAVID CHIPHANGWI 1936; 2001

Going around the Mahatma Ghandi Campus, no one ailsto notice the inscription o the name John Chiphangwiwhen passing through the anatomy department build-ings and at the core o the sole medical school in Malawi,

stands the John Chiphangwi Resource Centre. An archi-tectural grandeur o the state o the art resource centre tohave been built in the commercial city o Blantyre.

On the 17th o December, 1936, Proessor JohnDavid Chiphangwi, a very singular and extraordinaryhuman being was born at Luchanza, 30 miles east o Blan-tyre. He was born to an estate clerk ather and a schoolteacher mother. Educated at Dedza Secondary School inthe central Part o Malawi, he proceeded to study Medi-cine at Aberdeen University rom 1960. He urthered his

career to do his postgraduate at Makerere and LondonUniversity.

Chiphangwi never lost his love or his motherlandand in the early 1980s, he played a pivotal role in establish-ing the only medical school in Malawi. His apprehensivedireness saw Mahatma Ghandi campus doors opening in1991, and Chiphangwi himsel as its medical director and,later in 1995, became its principal. Upon the first gradua-tion ceremony, those in attendance witnessed his appeal-ing joy o awed devotion when he was giving the certifi-cates to the Malawi premier medical doctors-a memorythey will eternally cherish. John David Chiphangwi, an artistic and elegantspeaker and witted writer, lived his lie under the mosthostile and terriying atmosphere orchestrated by the lateDr Hastings Kamuzu Banda. Dr Banda, himsel a medi-cal doctor, seeing himsel as unpopular figure in Arica,he had set himsel to controlling every aspect o in the

republic o Malawi. In so doing, many o Chiph-angwi peers had resorted to fleeing the countryseeking a more secure living, yet Chiphangwiendured the artificial calamity. Dr Banda had tolddoctors that Aids was not in existence and thatalone made lie a living hell or the nurses, teach-ers and doctors more particularly or men withastute medical skills and administrative calibrelike that o Chiphangwi. In the 1998, Chiphangwi was yet again

instrumental in the erection o Malawis seconduniversity in the northern part o Malawi.

Few men can march the un-attenuatedeffort o Chiphangwi, Malawis arch specialist inobstetrics and gynaecology, who worked tirelesslyorganising debates about diseases and the thenbanned birth control topics in the 1983. At the ageo 65, Proessor Chiphangwi died on the 29th Oc-tober, 2001, having served at the Commonwealthscience council and as Aricas regional represen-

tative on the coordinating board o the WorldHealth Organisation/United Nations DevelopmentProject/World Bank programme or research andtraining in tropical diseases, among many others.

Reerence:http://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/jan/29/guardianobtuaries1http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/

aberdeen/john-chiphangwi


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faces of COM Hussein Twabi


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swazi republic

A LETTER TO THE FAITHFUL SWAZI

Te Swazi Association o College O Medicine(SACOM) .

Private Bag 360 , Mahtma Gandhi Campus, Blantyre . 13 th February, 2014 .Dear Swazi,

I am very anxious to warn you on the new development that has arisen to our surprise.Tis is simplythe decrease in the number o the aithul swazis in hostels o Anadkat ,Soche, Chambo, Mlambeand Nyasaland. Te development has seen multitudes o our ollowers leaving the Swazi Bus Group

o companies opting or the Romeo and Juliet Bus Company. It is because o this, that we would liketo strongly advise you to remain intact and keep your personal shares with our bus company as weare passing through this tough time called the season o Valentine. We really treasure your commit-ment, support and good will. I also would like to tell you that some o your riends who lef us andjoined Romeo & Juliet Bus Company have ailed to drive such buses yet alone earn a profit romtheir shares. Tey are out o business as they have been booted out by their competitors. Tis in sim-ple Swazi language means chawaluma chakuda.

Finally, let me remind you that SACOM has been around or so long that it has seen premeds thatwere 25 years o age who did not need to be under our responsibility. oday, at this very moment,this very sentence, we are seeing premeds that are 15 years old that are joining the institution withthe priority o alling in love rather than the academics which saw them through to this level. Itis very sad that such relationships do not last a week, day, an hour yet even a minute. I have beena Swazi or this long due to the ear o the sentence to all in love, i it was to rise in love may be Iwould have been the first one to abandon the SACOM. Te management o SACOM currently istrying to establish another wing at the Malawi University o Science and echnology (MUS) whichwill be opening its doors later this year. Our riends rom Chanco, Poly, LUANAR and the mostaithul ones rom KCN greet you.

Yours aithully,Proessor Swazi

(Te Incumbent President)

Thindi muula


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