{"id":5699,"date":"2019-10-02T09:29:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T06:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5699"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:34","slug":"forsaken-in-terror-war-kenyan-islands-await-doctors-by-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/02\/forsaken-in-terror-war-kenyan-islands-await-doctors-by-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"Forsaken In Terror War, Kenyan Islands Await Doctors By Boat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By\nThe East African<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Laden with\nmedicines, the speedboat sets off before dawn, its path lit only by the full\nmoon as it cuts between miles of thick mangroves towards Kenya&#8217;s border with\nSomalia, where few dare to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two hours\nlater at sunrise, the boat arrives at Kiangwe village, one of several remote\ncoastal communities whose only healthcare comes from these monthly visits by\nthe Safari Doctors mobile medical team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volunteer\ndoctors and nurses roll up their trousers and heave containers full of medical\nsupplies onto their shoulders before wading ashore and hiking up a hill to a\nbuilding that will serve as their clinic for a few hours. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theeastafrican.co.ke\/news\/ea\/Forsaken-in-terror-war-Kenyan-islands-await-doctors-by-boat\/4552908-5294576-s89c9l\/index.html\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By The East African Laden with medicines, the speedboat sets off before dawn, its path lit only by the full moon as it cuts between miles of thick mangroves towards&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}