Okechuku's hospital was repainted. The change was not obvious except for the three blue lines that were painted at the centre of the wall to run from one end of the building to another end. In the reception, Christmas decorations of red and green glittery ropes still hung from a pillar to different ends of the hall. As always, people sat with their tallies in the reception waiting for their turn or for a nurse to call them.

There were obvious changes in Okechuku's office. Kamsi noted that the framed picture of him and his daughter had changed to one where he was carrying the little girl who was on...