Access to healthcare a challenge for Sarawak's interior folk


When a river and a boat is your only practical means of transportation, getting basic medical care can be a challenge.

CATHERINE Laleng kept wetting down her six-month-old baby’s feverish body with towels. But nothing she did could lower Clarence’s temperature. She was living every new parent’s nightmare: watching helplessly as her child suffered.

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