A Single Hospital Serves the 23 Islands of the Guinean Archipelago of the Bijagós

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Nurses are not always able to deal with populations of nearby islands due to the lack of means of transport, even for serious cases. They have just moved to fishing cannons without minimum conditions.

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Elcio and two other nurses work at the health centre of Formosa, but they should regularly care for the populations of the nearby islands of Chedignha, Nghago and Mayo, which do not always get due to the lack of means of transport. Even for serious cases of children or pregnant ones, Elcio and his team feel "many difficulties" to transport those patients to the Bubaque hospital, he told Lusa. "We are a health centre of type C for primary care. W…