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Medical Kit for Mongolia

A return to traditional medicine for people in remote areas

Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, medicines cost more in Mongolia and in some remote areas there’s just one doctor for 600 people. We look at a new scheme that aims to get healthcare out to these hard-to-reach areas by giving families a traditional medicine kit.

Also on the show, a look at Black lung disease, or Coalminers' pneumoconiosis, which causes three-quarters of all occupational deaths in China; how the world’s only under-water research habitat, Aquarius, is helping prepare astronauts for life in space; the heroin users of Zanzibar and the dangerous ways they’re trying to get high; and the new research that shows stressed mothers carry their babies differently – cradling them more to the right than to the left.

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26 minutes

Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

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