When we founded the first outpatient clinic in 2015, we found within 5 months that we had let ourselves be ripped off and didn’t know what to do anymore.

We greet you in the new year 2023 and want to update you on what happened in Shell during the Christmas season and what the future looks like.

This month we want to report something about our staff and patients, tell something from everyday life.

It’s mid-November. The Wolffs have been in Germany for two months, have now set up their house and taken care of most of the important administrative procedures. Now the focus is on Shell again.

hell lets us leave really hard. In the last few days, the surgeon and trauma surgeon have been on vacation and training. So Eckehart was asked to help out almost to the end.

What’s next in Shell?

End of May the Wolffs retired from Hospital Shell and went to Chile for over 3 weeks on a long holiday. Now we have visited Shell again. A lot has happened in the meantime. Our feelings are divided.

For Klaudia and Eckehart, the official professional activity ends in May. Then we really are (almost) retired. Ecuadorians take over responsibility. But it will be a few weeks before all of this becomes official through the local State offices.

Handing over – is not easy. We bear a legacy from staff, missionaries and especially patients that is now being handed over to a mostly young team.

The Ukraine war is the most important current topic. The TV and cell phone pictures go around the world, even if the real news is getting harder and harder.