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Hope floats [1]

This is one hospital with a difference: Patients don't go to it; it floats to them. The many inaccessible islands in the Brahmaputra river now have a common connecting link-hospital boats from the award-winning project, Ships of Hope-that brings them quality medical care right at their doorstep.

Publication Date: 
14/09/2009
Abhijit Dasgupta [2]
India Today (New Delhi) [3]
Tags:
Brahmaputra [4], Health Care [5], National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) [6], World Bank [7], Assam [8]
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