The so-called 'Train of Hope' has come to provide COVID-19 screening in one of South Africa's virus hotspots.
South Africa's"Trains of Hope" bring healthcare workers to hard-to-reach areas, deviating from routine healthcare to boost testing for the novel coronavirus.
The so-called"Train of Hope" has come to provide COVID-19 screening in one of South Africa's virus hotspots from aboard a specially equipped mobile clinic. Since the first case was reported on March 5, Africa's most industrialised country has recorded the continent's highest number of cases,Previously operating as a general health services facility offering dentistry, eye checks and counselling services in more than 70 of South Africa's rural communities, the state-funded train has been re-purposed as a locomotive of"hope" in South Africa's fight against the coronavirus.
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