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by qwerta 4184 days ago
Czech Army had mobile hospital in Afganistan for locals. There was a huge queue of people, some family would carry their relative for a week, just to get to hospital. We simply have no idea what is it there like.

Money could be probably spend more efficient way (exterminate mosquitoes rather than fight malaria). But running hospital in country without basic infrastructure is always very expensive.

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A friend of mine worked as a volunteer nurse at a make shift hospital in a remote part of Ethiopia. There was a group that carried a dead person for more than a day to the hospital to see if they could save her. I have no idea what it is like to provide health care services in an area like this.
The mosquito problem is one of the aspects the Gates Foundation is working on to eradicate Malaria.