Mission Aviation Fellowship delivers Covid vaccine to remote Lesotho JOE ADAMS/MAF
Lesotho Flying Doctor staff with does of Covid-19 vaccine for health workers, at Matsaile, Lesotho
PILOTS from the Mission Aviation Fellowship (MAF) have delivered supplies of coronavirus vaccine to a remote mountain-top community in Lesotho.
The first plane touched down last month on a grass airstrip in Kuebunyane, an area that comprises several remote villages, with vials of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which have now been given to about 60 health workers.
The villages are home to 62,000 people, but are so far from the nearest hospital that travel for the vaccine was impossible. Kuebunyane is 2293 metres above sea level. To reach it from the closest clinic, in Qacha’s Nek, nurses would have to drive for four hours before undertaking a four-hour trek across a deep valley. In the time that this would take, the vaccines which must be kept cold in a fridge would hav
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Updated at 8:17 p.m. ET on 2021-04-14
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