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From lawn chair to wheelchair: what bare-bones care looks like in some countries
Sherri Borden Colley
Published: Jan 17, 2017
Updated: Jan 17, 2017
CBC News
Excerpt
Each time Krista Sweet visits Belize to help train health-care workers and fit children with wheelchairs and walkers, she's reminded of how people with few material assets can survive.
Sweet, a pediatric physiotherapist at the IWK Health Centre in Halifax, is a volunteer with Team Canada Healing Hands.
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