Transport is a critical area in health care access, serving as a link between home and health facilities. Poor road network and absence of regular means of suitable transport leaves rural areas inaccessible, and physical access to specialized health care difficult.

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Consistent neglect of road infrastructural development and endemic poverty in the study area makes provision of alternative transport services for health care difficult.

Lack of vehicular transport is suppressing the potential positive impact on maternal and child health. Consistent neglect of road infrastructural development and poverty makes provision of alternative transport services for health care difficult.

Pregnant women use risky methods such as bicycle/tricycle/motorbikes to access obstetric health care services, and some turn to traditional #medicines and traditional birth attendants for maternal #health care services.

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Henrietta was born Loretta Pleasant on August 1, 1920, in Roanoke, Virginia. Somehow her name became Henrietta. after her mother died in 1924, Henrietta was sent to Clover, Virginia, to live with her grandfather , Tommy Lacks. Her cousin David "Day" Lacks lived in the same house

On January 29,1951, four months after the birth of her fifth child, Henrietta went to the to the dreaded John Hopkins hospital. Most blacks living in the area were certain they would not receive the same quality of care as whites, and they would be used for medical experiments.

It was rumored that surgeons routinely performed #hysterectomies on Black #women they treated for any type of abdominal and/or pelvic #pain. The tissue taken from her cervix 10 days later was given to Dr. George Gey, who hoped to to find the cause of #cancer. American Cancer Society

Dr. Gey would soon discover that Mrs. Lacks’ cells were unlike any of the others he had ever seen: where other cells would die, Mrs. Lacks' cells #doubled every 20 to 24 hours. These incredible cells— nicknamed "HeLa" cells, from the first two letters of her first and last names.

Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez an Insider Now? newyorker.com/culture/the-ne… via The New Yorker

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