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Residents say they have to walk long distances to town to access the clinic and hospital as there are no healthcare facilities in the township.Seventy-two-year-old Selisina Bereng has to walk to the clinic to fetch her chronic medication and some days she comes back empty handed.

Residents say it’s costly for them to travel to town to visit the clinic. Now they are calling for a mobile clinic “When you call an ambulance, it takes time. And you’ll find out you have a serious emergency, you can imagine the risk and you’ll be told that there is one ambulance working,” another resident explains.

“Sometimes we struggle especially on weekends because our clinic is not a 24 hour operation and there won’t be doctors,” another resident reiterates.

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