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rassmann health workers step up testing for imported infections the african union nigeria garner and the u.s. of called on china to take immediate measures russia is reporting its largest daily increase yet of more than 2 and a half 1000 new cases the government says 148 russians have died with the number of infections of passing 18000 all prices have risen after major producers agreed to their biggest ever output cut the global market is oversupply because of a price war between saudi arabia and russia crushing demand from coronaviruses taking a toll to libya's internationally recognized government has ordered airstrikes targeting warlord holy for half those forces the strikes hit the cities of. west of the capital tripoli the news continues after risking it all stay with us. we understand the differences and
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live. for many in the west african country of guinea 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 an island gold and diamonds. but most canadians never see the benefit.
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of. the monk in the dark but 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. for parts of the bus and then. the next challenge is getting the vaccines to a porter at the bus step of a downpour has caused huge traffic jams. was
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so pleased to 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. good. things are going to. your south your bus and hear them cannot come to simply be with you to make sure nobody like you can hear ambrose. after 6 hours in traffic the taxi finally reaches the bus to. follow with careful instructions the pharmacist hands the vaccines to the owner of
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the bush taxi a bus. to god i was going to go for a family event on monday but they are contacted by the banks that are about to find some people to just look at the person to sort out what is next to the fragile vaccines are placed under the front seat. that would. not come up is going to they're going to do what you guys are going to do a lesser known limited. government. i. gainey has no real way on planes 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
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with her baby. you cannot get anything done more than it was then you got me to go yes i'm astounded at how. to drive a feel 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. most you must include. the man in the baseball cap has reserved the seat. and what. was this was left by a sensitive moment the link you allude to this because nobody is the cutest kid knows it is not the lucy this year one certainty dearly departed parties are not going to hear the money that. will finally 9 passengers 2 babies and 2 drivers a crammed into the taxi. a bass takes pride in his car which is
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22 years old. i was told it was an apollo never to. be to me if i'm going to fit into something cause i think i'm to be the government that will. the passengers with the vaccines finally leave the capital. the ice meant to preserve the vaccines has now been melting for 8 hours if the driver doesn't make it to do go in 16 hours the vaccines will be useless and might as well be thrown away. the 680 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.
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the 2 drivers constantly swap over. the boot is not exactly comfortable. 2 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. the good news you can see. but whose job it is a simple fact that uncle jimmy something. the petrol fumes might keep the evil spirits away but highway robbers a real threat. yet you seem
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a little bit beside him do you live here in france i think this is not. your mom did military rock because you thank you so much me to. this girl you gotta come i was here for you you got to go to. the scots think if you do go but if. the stop is a welcome relief to the cramped passages their bodies age and their stomachs are empty. jeff think only. you. can give them mentality you will believe you were ready but what is known. as a precaution they wait until daylight before setting off again. by
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the early morning the vaccines have been on the road for 22 pounds. even so sharif proceeds with caution. when. they come on to be on t.v. about bobby cutts and. good judgment at these times is critical. the gamble seems to have paid off after 24 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. but the money going to
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them to open up a mobile phone with you know i. don't know their man got no no i'm going to advise you get one foot out. the pharmacist is on his way but one passenger is tired of waiting. on the bus fare think it might be that big will be more money to get my me now you could make them up like him and i've got them well i'm sure there are good and we got better than a lot of the over there now but i leave it on. the pharmacist arrives an hour later he quickly refrigerate the vaccines relief all round ok. most villages and some towns in guinea lack the most basic services. kissa dugu and its $200000.00 inhabitants get only a few hours of electricity
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a week. the main hospital has an emergency unit that's reserved for pregnant women who can't. get it that miriam a nurse dashes off to the hospital's only ambulance the vehicle was donated by unicef 13 years ago without the means to maintain it it's a miracle it's still running i'm. due to the high price of petrol it can only be used once a day. can bring us up and down the ship. process duchamp. the strength gives again ahmed don't profit a bit so that's going back to their set up to run.
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the normal number it that they want there the times that it out now. nurses waste a lot of time tracking down patients in the bush there are no signs indicating the names of roads all villages. going to you know coma if you haven't got a way where martin were both of them but. look after you know what i mean i don't know i know a little moan about. 2 hours later and they still haven't located the pregnant woman. only go back to the parking lot of her house it was not going. to make things worse the old ambulance breaks down. oh sun come up and do it now. but did anybody think you did. dishes out of court of course having fun with them. oh no
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madonna no worry about how much money. i got for her. no no no 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 with going to. the medicare. medicaid. services some day and i'm not. after 4 days of agony both mother and baby are in serious danger from the little bit of medical center. that this. stuff that. they have been. so far from my.
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3 hours after leaving the hospital merriam can finally attend to the patient. and the baby is poorly position and the 18 year old girl is in urgent need of us his area. and. in rural villages grandmother zite has midwives assisting women with childbirth. from their. first. books help or get out of. that while she get the fuck out but for the. but then my husband tries to comfort her as best he can there's no stretcher and she lies on the telephone of about oh i don't think i'll put the book we're going to walk out of
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the home but a lot of this is. if you want to know my now. i'm. not. i'm not saying. it's not anxious about you pick up the picked up the book what did. you think. the hospital has no running water on the operating room has only one set of surgical clamps but there isn't any statistic a month 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.
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see if you birth just for the love that. in fact it may have been given for the movie. for my person. i don't want my system in the month. for days of contractions have paralyzed the mother's legs the hospital has no suitable medicines. they are but the same as if i must stand there and. watch. the world do what it. would be i'm doing god knows. what would do with a. young child. without free public health care many families here are unable to cover basic medical needs the hospital pharmacy sells medicines for
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a 10th the price of the private sector but even these prices can be an affordable. concept i could answer was i i work in guinea 5 dollars can change a life. maybe it's the camera or genuine sympathy but in the end 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 $15300.00 babies and $3800.00 women die in childbirth each year in guinea. getting medicines to where they're needed is
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a real problem. these medicines are on their way to a dispensary in the middle of the jungle. this won't be the 1st risky journey has taken. to get it when i was. going to tell you about it and if you want to have you know what. i don't think you know yeah be able to do. front up. for you sometimes the food bank or. the money and somebody just going.
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to get you till monday so who knows what it would be so we're going to get it. right here. maybe. the meal track is actually a regional road they can excuse to do goo and 45 kilometers away. by the time you're got no apologies go in and out of a. going on like i was in a few days might even get him. at each ball the rhythm of the spades receives
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and it's always the same t.v. . is encouraged. like his truck stops its engine lacks power it will get to be that wasn't about it but then somebody else people. see the minute bradish i just wish we could start up you know bethel a bond to fund the build up as i don't want burn time in to work upon it wanting it only when i pulled it off and i bought it when i got it that's what i meant.
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and guinea everything has multiple uses. to put us all what i said judy on the bus comment in the comment that i said that's. something i would like. to make. by nightfall they've been driving for 10 hours. that it. might. the nurse at the dispensary collects the packages of meds and. he's been expecting
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them for 3 months when the box is a quite small. he hopes they'll be enough to replenish his stock. if. you will say it is you believe it or give it you don't belong to the on another sample of live. among the medicine benjamin has received of vaccines against measles diptheria tetanus and polio he'll start vaccinating children 1st thing in the morning as he has no means of conserving the precious vaccines. by the electricity. if. free will so present it.
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the village is always grateful. subzero temperatures stream altitudes. this is where the hard part appears in the extraordinary journey from polish to that g.q. style braved quite ordinary joy to the thought of what we do high up there's no oxygen. just to experience life simple pleasures. risking it all in kurdistan on al-jazeera. save humanity i really really not getting any.
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you know certain isolating times the listening post cuts through the noise you've been looking at another side of the story now from our information around the outbreak but we missed. the listening post on al-jazeera. south korea reports more than a 100 people who were initially cleared of coronavirus have tested positive again. china meanwhile announces the highest number of new cases in the wakes most of which says are from infected travelers. i'm sorry is
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