Liberia: Some patients in southeast have to travel by canoe to get healthcare

There are so few working hospitals and health clinics in southeastern Liberia that patients in one district have to be ferried by canoe to neighbouring Cote d'Ivoire to receive any treatment at all, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said in a report on medical facilities in the area. The report, based on an assessment carried out by an ICRC team between 15 and 25 July, said the health services in the six remote counties of southeastern Liberia had virtually collapsed during 14 years of civil war.