Burundi: Burundi hit by healthcare crisis
13.05.2004
More than a million people in Burundi are not receiving any medical treatment because they cannot afford it, says aid agency Medecins sans Frontieres. The MSF report said a government move to get people to start paying for treatment, tests and drugs meant many now went without them altogether. Burundi's impoverished government withdrew free health care to its 6.9 million citizens two years ago.