Nalbari, India, Sept 22, 2026 (AFP) - Mobile boat clinics bring healthcare to India's remote islands

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2026-09-22
An infant lets out a feeble cry as a doctor administers a routine but vital injection aboard a mobile boat clinic, part of a network serving remote riverine communities in northeastern India. Hundreds of thousands of people in Assam state, crisscrossed by the Brahmaputra river, live on "chars", or temporary river islands and sandbars where access to even basic healthcare can be a challenge. More than 2,000 such islands dot the state where there a......
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