bouvet media : photo gallery

TB Doctor with Patient Group

Dr Jaime Sarmento, leader of the National TB Control Programme, accompanied by regional supervisor Filomeno, discuss the status in tuberculosis treatment in village near Indonesian border with local motivators and patients.

Maliana, East Timor — 15 February 2001 — ref 2001-02-003

Loder and His Mother, TB Patients

Loder (2.5 years), who is diagnosed as malnourished and with tuberculosis, and his mother Cacinta, also with TB. Both started treatment at the public hospital in Suai.

Suai, East Timor — 13 February 2001 — ref 2001-02-044

TB Lab Under a Tree

Nurse Sr Filomena da Costa hCar, Vice Director of the National TB Control Programme, fixates slides for TB diagnostics in a lab rigged under a tree. The Carmelite sisters operate a mobile clinic which visit the remote hamlet Siamado in Lisadila village every six weeks.

Maubara, East Timor — 12 February 2003 — ref2003-02-013

Mobile Clinic Health Check-up

The Carmelite sisters operate a mobile clinic which visits the remote hamlet Siamado in Lisadila village every six weeks. Nurse Sr Filomena da Costa hCar examines patients, many of them small children.

Maubara, East Timor — 12 February 2003 — ref2003-02-020

TB Doctors Interview Patient

Dr Jaime Sarmento, director of the National TB Control Programme, together with adviser Dr Karin Benan, interview a TB patient at the Baucau hospital.

Baucau, East Timor — 4 March 2003 — ref 2003-03-006

Children Recycling Garbage

Many children near the Payatas garbage dump in Manila (the city’s new “Smokey Mountain”) work every day recycling garbage, helping their parents collect money to survive. Unhealthy, and damaging their education.

Payatas, Manila, Philippines — 7 November 2003 — ref 2003-11-003

Lab Staff with MDR-TB Test Tube

Lab staff Ms Grace Egos from the laboratory of the DOTS centre of the Tropical Disease Foundation shows a test tube to be checked for MBR-TB (Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis).

Makati, Manila, Philippines — 17 August 2004 — ref 2004-08-037

Lab Technician with MDR-TB Test Tubes

Lab technician with the laboratory of the DOTS centre of the Tropical Disease Foundation with test tubes being checked for MBR-TB (Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis).

Makati, Manila, Philippines — 17 August 2004 — ref 2004-08-038

Examination of MDR-TB Patient

Patient Dorothy from Becol province (left) is examined by Tropical Disease Foundation staff Dr Raymond Lorens (right) of the TDF DOTS Centre MDR-TB Clinic. Her family want to take her home to die, as her condition is weak, but the clinic staff want to try medication. In the background (fl) a relative, and visitor Dr Jaime Sarmento from the East Timorese TB control programme.

Queson City, Manila, Philippines — 18 August 2004 — ref 2004-08-046

TB Patient Taking Her Drugs

The young woman is a TB patient taking her medication in the MDR-TB clinic of the DOTS centre of the Tropical Disease Foundation. Direct observation of patients taking their drugs (DOTS) is essential for ordinary TB patients, but critical for patients with Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis.

Queson City, Manila, Philippines — 18 August 2004 — ref 2004-08-047

Hydropower Engineer on Water Pipes

Hydroelectric Engineer Alf V Adeler, Senior Adviser to the East Timorese Government, on a pile of penstock pipes. These 400 mm ductile cast iron pipes are laid in ditches and transport high-pressure water from two springs to a turbine at the Gariuai Mini Hydroelectric Power Project (MHPP).

Gariuai, Baucau, East Timor — 25 September 2006 — ref 2006-09-009

Installing Insulators on Power Line

Installation of insulators on a new 20 kV medium currency mast, attaching the new Gariuai mini hydroelectric power station to the grid.

Gariuai, Baucau, East Timor — 25 September 2006 — ref 2006-09-036

Concreting of Power House

Local worker preparing for concreting at the Gariuai Mini Hydroelectric Power Project (MHPP) power house building.

Gariuai, East Timor — 3 September 2007 — ref 20070903-147

Excavating Penstock Ditch

Constructing the Gariuai Mini Hydroelectric Power Project was done using local manual labour, with few exceptions. Here an excavator was required in order to advance the penstock (high pressure water pipes) through a small hill, as the risk for avalances was too big for manual digging.

Gariuai, Baucau, East Timor — 26 November 2007 — ref 20071126-524

Local Workers Moving Penstock

Constructing the Gariuai Mini Hydroelectric Power Project was done using local manual labour, with few exceptions. Here local workers move a 250 mm (smaller) penstock section (high pressure water pipes) into the ditch they have excavated by hand.

Gariuai, Baucau, East Timor — 26 March 2008 — ref 20080326-851

Construction Manager on Penstock

Construction Manager Vasco Pinto from the Gariuai Mini Hydroelectric Power Project on the penstock leading pressured water from two springs down to the powerhouse turbine.

Gariuai, Baucau, East Timor — 2 June 2008 — ref 20080602-026

Welding Penstock

Expert welder from the Fatumaca Vocational School welding the penstock connection to the Gariuai Mini Hydroelectric Power Plant power house.

Gariuai, Baucau, East Timor — 3 June 2008 — ref 20080603-036

Installing Generator

Erection Engineer Ralf Monsees of Wasserkraft Volk with EDTL (national electricity authority) staff installing the generator in the Gariuai Mini Hydroelectric Power Plant power house.

Gariuai, Baucau, East Timor — 3 June 2008 — ref 20080603-042