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Brahmaputra Boat Clinic In Assam Goes Solar, Powering Up Rural Healthcare
Majuli, Assam: Sitting on her haunches, Ritumani Baruah watches the boat drop anchor and waits for its crew to set up a clinic on the shore. Twenty minutes later, she asks to see the dentist and is guided to the lower deck of the SB Nahor, a boat offering healthcare services that operates on the Brahmaputra river in Assam. She negotiates the gangp...
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Assam's boat clinics carry health services and hope for children
The successive waves of flood in Assam this year have left millions of children fighting illness and poor nutrition, and thousands displaced. And for those inhabiting remote islands in the middle of Brahmaputra River, these boat clinics run by the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research and supported by the National Rural Health Mission (...
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Brahmaputra Boat Clinic In Assam Goes Solar, Powering Up Rural Healthcare
Majuli, Assam: Sitting on her haunches, Ritumani Baruah watches the boat drop anchor and waits for its crew to set up a clinic on the shore. Twenty minutes later, she asks to see the dentist and is guided to the lower deck of the SB Nahor, a boat offering healthcare services that operates on the Brahmaputra river in Assam. She negotiates the gangp...
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Assam's boat clinics carry health services and hope for children
The successive waves of flood in Assam this year have left millions of children fighting illness and poor nutrition, and thousands displaced. And for those inhabiting remote islands in the middle of Brahmaputra River, these boat clinics run by the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research and supported by the National Rural Health Mission (...
