South Africa’s ‘Health Train’ Travels to Patients in Need — VOA Learning English
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In South Africa, a former passenger train now serves as a traveling medical center to provide health services to people in need.
The train is known as Phelophepa. In the Sesotho language, this means “good, clean, health.” It travels across South Africa to provide medical care to a mix of patients for whom usual heath care is unavailable or rare.
The train has been operating since South Africa’s government ended its racist system of apartheid in the early 1990s. The train carries medical professionals around the country, even to the most rural villages. Officials say the service helps at least 375,000 South Africans each year.
The care patients receive is separate from the government’s main…
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