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Phelophepa Health Train - South Africa
January 2001
The Phelophepa Health Train brings hospital facilities to remote rural areas in South Africa. Huge number of sick walk for miles, and cue for hours to see volunteer doctors. Poverty is the main source of ill health, according to WHO Director-General Gro Harlem Brundtland, who pointed out last week that 1.3 billion people live on less than a dollar a day - and what kind of healthy life is possible on that?
