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The ‘Mother Theresa of Bangladesh’

Dubbed the ‘Mother Theresa’ of Bangladesh, British woman Valerie Taylor set up a centre for the rehabilitation of people with spinal injuries in 1979.

She’d found nowhere in the entire country was able to provide proper care to people with spinal injuries.

From just 4 patients it's grown to treat hundreds of thousands.

As part of our week of reports from Bangladesh Asian Network's Catrin Nye took a tour of the vast centre in Savar, Dhaka.

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