On the camels’ backs come healthcare and hope
Dec 10, 2021
3 minutes
By Ami Vitale and Wanjiku Kinuthia
Thirteen camels amble across the dusty, drought-stricken landscape, accompanied by seven men in bright yellow T-shirts and three nurses. The camels are loaded with trunks full of medicines, bandages and family planning products. It’s a mobile health clinic on legs. When the camels arrive at their destination, men, women and children form a line as they wait for the handlers to unload the boxes and set up tables and tents
Among those waiting is Jacinta Peresia, who first encountered the health visitors six years ago after she nearly
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