Happy Birthday Zambia!

Few people in Zambia actually know their birthday.   In general, people's concept of dates and the calendar is loose at best, so when they are admitted to the hospital, most of the time their age is based on the year of the birth, and no effort is made to figure out the actual date.  So everyone gets to be a year older on Jan 1st!  And everyone plays along with the fiction, correcting me on patient's ages when I see them on the wards, etc.  Maybe next year I'll plan a birthday celebration...