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A floating hospital that travels across Bangladesh's waterways brings hope to thousands of people. | |
An estimated 16 million people in Bangladesh have a
disability and most of them live in rural areas and cannot reach modern
healthcare facilities.
But the charity IMPACT is helping local medics treat disabilities aboard a three-deck floating hospital.
The 40 by 10 metre vessel travels along 3,000 kilometres of waterway
and includes wards, an operating theatre, a training centre,
laboratories and even its own water purification plant.
Aboard the Jibon Tari (Boat of Life) Floating Hospital, patients are
treated for a range of conditions including cataracts, club-foot,
post-polio deformities, cleft lip and loss of hearing.
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Traces of the polio virus have been detected in the sewage systems of a number of locations in the south, including Kiryat Gat and Ashdod. This follows the discovery last week of the polio virus in the Be’er Sheva sewage system.
The Health Ministry believes that all of the traces of the polio virus originate in the Bedouin town of Rahat, after the virus was found in the sewers there at the end of March.