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Lesothos Crisis: 6 Doctors to 800,000 children

3 September, Maseru: ABC News reported that for Lesotho’s 800,000 children, there are only six paediatricians to serve all of them.

MantsaseFrom a public hospital in Maseru, Kate Snow reported that ill infants had to share oxygen tanks due to a lack of resources and that the children’s mothers would stay with them 24 hours a day, as there are not enough nurses and doctors to look after them.

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