So it is true.  Archibel have let us all down.  Our licenses have expired and we cannot open Radar.  I have to go to work today with no repertory.  A typical day's work here could be between ten and twenty people.  Some of them will have walked for up to three hours to reach the clinic.  A one hour walk would be common.  If I don't prescribe on the spot they will have to walk three hours again to pick up the remedy.  And three hours back again.  There is no postal service here to post the remedy unless you own a PO box which of course our patients do not.


Our patients choose homoeopathy because it works but for some it is their only access to health care.  Hospitals here are good but limited by money - did you know it is possible for a whole country to run out of pain relief drugs?  Think of what that means for people who have been through surgery.  So now they are to be penalised again because the internet here is not wide enough to update our software.

Over the last ten days myself and Jane and Rebecca have tried repeatedly to download the update without success.  We have also been in contact with Archibel over that time over and over again asking to have our licenses extended until we are able to update.  I am stunned that a company claiming to support professional homoeopaths could withdraw an essential tool from us like this. I can't get my head around what they are thinking.  Could it just be a 21st century inability to grasp the concept of a lack of internet?  Making do and stretching resources has become such a way of life for us that I forget there are people living in fat and plenty.