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17/06/2023 15:12 (UTC)

COLOMBIA HEALTH

Four doctors for 28,000 people: the reality of healthcare in rural Colombia

Pie de Pato, Colombia, June 17 (EFE).- (Camera: Juan Diego López) In Pie de Pato, as so many other times, today there is no water.

But the health center, the only one for the 28,000 inhabitants of Alto Baudo, in the Colombian department of Choco, opens its doors with just four doctors and a handful of nurses.

The heat is crushing, the humidity 80 percent and conditions are unsanitary: the perfect setting for the proliferation of malaria, lung disease, dehydration and child malnutrition.

FOOTAGE OF A HEALTH CENTRE IN CHACHAJO, COLOMBIA

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