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for many in the west african country of life can be quite

a struggle. a quarter of the country is covered in forest and the government has neglected roads and basic services. constant delays paralyze the nation's economy. and yet guinea is a rich country rich gold and diamonds. but most canadians never see the benefit. in a month get it up with today pierre on his assistant bus transport medicines in record time from the capital conakry to kiss a dugu on the other side of the country so we're going to know. guinea is still plagued by serious diseases like polio defeat area and rabies. the pharmacy's primary concern is delivering the vaccines to where they're needed

before the climate spoils them. with no refrigerated truck or ice balls packs his vaccines in a box with just enough ice for the trip to give me. focus on the bottom and. the next challenge is getting the vaccines to a porter at the bus step of a downpour has caused a huge traffic jams. moment possibly you see. my little sister from. guinea's capital conakry is at a standstill. the taxis stuck in traffic for hours. vendors and beggars try to make the most of the situation.

john it was a little things are going to get. your nose out of your butts and hear them to not understand it was you could tell me something about them you can hear those. after six hours in traffic the taxi finally reaches the bus to. follow with careful instructions the pharmacist hands the vaccines to the owner of the bush taxi a bus. to go was going to go for the fun we're going to money ok back to front of the bathtub and just about. one hundred people to look at the president to decide on what is next to the fragile vaccines are placed under the front seat. under now come on the most

wanted and you know they're very different to what you was are going to do their lesser limited. government. gainey has no railway complains a prohibitively expensive taxis are the most common form of transport. but drivers take advantage by overcharging clients. this passenger tries to travel on credit with her baby. you are not getting. it under water and you know it was done and you're going to go yes i'm worried about me and now. the driver feels sorry for her and a deal is struck but another passenger is more of a problem he's hurt his hand and wants a window seat. where you can see the most in the best mother's mussing. the

man in the baseball cap has reserved the seat. in what was this was he left by the sensitive moment thinking that was doesn't really exist is no easy to some movement on the loose he lives there one certainty dearly departed problem is not yet just a one man than a great. ball finally nine passengers two babies and two drivers a crammed into the taxi. a bastard takes pride in his car which is twenty two years old. i was told it was an apollo never knew it was going to be doing it and then doesn't want to stop because i think i'm to do the math of the all. the passengers with the vaccines finally leave the capitol. the ice meant to preserve the vaccines has now

been melting for eight hours if a driver doesn't make it to do go in sixteen hours the vaccines will be useless and might as well be thrown away. the six hundred ninety kilometer road to kiss a dugu is strewn with potholes few drivers respect the rules of the road accidents are frequent. even before leaving the capital the drivers patience is tested. the two drivers constantly swap over. the boot is not exactly comfortable. two more hours a wasted in traffic. the deadline for the vaccine looms. the drivers

decide to drive through the night. since the start of the journey there's been a strong smell of petrol in the car still no one seems concerned. with the news you lance. but yeah we did this a simple phone call me something. on. the petrol fumes might keep the evil spirits away but highway robbers a real threat. you seem a little bit too savvy to end it you live here in france i think this up. your mum didn't believe there ought to be kosik thank you so much for me. this deal you got a police officer for you you got to go to. the school think it if you do don't hide it. from the stop is a welcome relief to the cramped passengers their bodies

a and their stomachs are empty. jeff think only. you know. what i'm going to give them and how they want you. to do what we're going to but what is known. as a precaution they wait until daylight before setting off again. by the early morning the vaccines have been on the road for twenty two. even so sharif proceeds with caution. when. i think i'm going to be on your feet. but not.

that. good judgment at these times is critical. the gamble seems to have paid off after twenty four hours the taxi arrives in kiss a do good. but luck is against them. the pharmacy is closed the ice has melted and the vaccines urgently need to be refrigerated. someone. come up with you no. no no ma'am got no no way i'm going to bus you get one foot out. the pharmacist is on his way but one passenger is tired of waiting what. that. will be no matter what you might be not you couldn't remember him i liked him and i got on well i mean. the.

little bit on the other. the pharmacist arrives an hour later he quickly refrigerate the vaccines relief all around. most villages and some towns in guinea lack the most basic services. kissa do go and it's two hundred thousand inhabitants get only a few hours of electricity a week. the main hospital has an emergency unit that's reserved for pregnant women ok. mary i'm a nurse dashes off to the hospitals only ambulance the vehicle was donated by unicef thirteen years ago without the means to maintain it it's a miracle it's still running i'm.

jus to the high price of petrol it can only be used once a day. can bring us up and i don't mean that but if it. was that. douche bag thank you that you know man don't profit so that's going back. to run. their home this little. number it that they have what they're the outcomes that. nurses waste a lot of time tracking down patients in the bush there are no signs indicating the names of roads all villages. are going to you know coma if you haven't got it right now where martin luther with the bottom of. it all looked after you know whatever you have done. a little known about. two hours later and they still haven't

located the pregnant woman. or the parking lot of her that's not going. to make things worse the old ambulance breaks down. osama how long. have you been with him. my father. no no. i she waits for makeshift repairs mariyam bumps into the pregnant woman's father in law worried he'd set out on foot looking for help we're going to.

some day and. after four days of agony both mother and baby are in serious danger. of that seven zero children. because i'm. not. and there have been. three hours after leaving the hospital mariam can finally attend to the patients. the baby is poorly position and the eighteen year old girl is in urgent need of a says area. and. in rural villages grandmothers i has midwives assisting women with childbirth.

talk to that. person to have the books know. that what. the problem. bought them on the husband tries to comfort her as best he can there's no stretcher and she lies on the top landing on a. no i don't think i'm going to hurt we're going to talk about. this it. was one of the you know oh now. i'm. not. on my side. most of them and i was about you know how big.

the hospital has no running water in the operating room has only one set of surgical clamps but there is underneath the test a mother is soon asleep. this is airy and goes well but the baby isn't breathing. without the aid of respiratory machines the nurses do their best to save the baby but. now freddy said you. see if your son's birth just for the love. that i'm going for really having given for the movie. for my last. don't listen to something the man. four days of contractions have paralyzed the mother's legs the hospital has no suitable medicines.

yeah but the thing was this one must in the end more. than. the would do but it was a word with him knows. what we're doing. the goal is to get it all down. without free public health care many families here are unable to cover basic medical needs the hospital pharmacy sells medicines for a tenth the price of the private sector but even these prices can be an affordable . answer to answer was that it was. worse in guinea five dollars can change a life. maybe it's the camera or genuine sympathy but in the end of the

pharmacist pays for the medicine himself. there's enough to treat his wife for a week. any longer and it'll be up to the husband to come up with more money. according to unicef fifteen thousand three hundred babies and three thousand eight hundred women die in childbirth each year in guinea. getting medicines to where they needed is a real problem. these medicines are on their way to a dispensary in the middle of the jungle. this won't be the first risky journey has taken. the. right and if you want to hear what. you know now be able to do the. front up.

for you sometimes a new thank. you money somebody was going. to get you to madame's over is what it would be so we're going to get a hey. yeah right here. we could be. on the meal track is actually a regional road they can excuse to do go and do forty five kilometers away.

by the time you're not. going to whatever. you know. that's each ball the rhythm of the spades receives and it's always the same team. is encouraged.

and like his truck stops its engine lacks power that would be good wasn't about it but then somebody else you will. see the minute bradish i just wish we could ever know if it will abound if one the build up as i don't want burn time in to work a defining moment when i pull that off when i don't know what i mean. and guinea everything has multiple uses. to put us to what i said judy on the bus comment from the community that i said that. someone here would like. to be me.

by nightfall they've been driving for ten hours. from. my. the nurse at the dispensary collects the packages of meds and. he's been expecting them for three months and the books is a quite small. he hopes they'll be enough to replenish his stuff. if. he will say it is your baby to give yet you don't return to the on another sample of the.

among the medicine benjamin has received of vaccines against measles diptheria tetanus and polio he'll start vaccinating children first thing in the morning as he has no means of conserving the precious vaccines. electricity. soap opera's into. gotten into.

the people of. this two year old is too weak to be vaccinated. design really. doesn't mind just want to save it. i mean. in guinea one in ten children dies before reaching the age of falling.

scarcely ever visit these remote villages. benjamin tries to fill the void he's only a nurse but an experienced one skilled nurses like him are invaluable. the village is always grateful. thanks. subzero temperatures we just dream altitudes. this is where the

hard part is the extraordinary journey from the pathetic you start braved what an ordinary joy to. do high up there's no oxygen. just to experience of life simple pleasures. risking it all in the cargo stuff of this time on al-jazeera. i sometimes feel that we are really looking into the hearts and the soul of those directly involved in advance taking place we're very good at telling all sides of the story from the political elite to those people who are affected you really get to know what's happening on the ground that's very important for me as a third generation african often feel that my continent is misrepresented and we've changed that your story is important to us it doesn't matter where you come from it was an audacious bid to capture a city in the southern philippines and turn it into a province of myself. with the royal we have left the smoking room is the new

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