Covid-19 has been brutal in Peru, with strikes and demonstrations on the rise across the country as the government grapples with having the highest death rate per population in the world. But it's not all doom and gloom. New Zealand professor Patrick Emanuel (who featured on Calling Home in 2019) is part of a team who have invented a new way of doing surgery for melanoma in a remote fashion. He joins the show to discuss his new treatment breakthrough and being tested for Covid-19 14 times already.
New Zealander Patrick Emanuel is a specialist in non-melanoma skin cancers who lives and works in Lima, Peru. Photo: Supplied
