Summary
You can’t create medical infrastructure with motorcycles. But . . .
Andrea and Barry Coleman realized that too often, available medicines that arrive in developing countries fail to make it to their final destinations due to gaps in infrastructure. They also recognized one of those gaps is the lack of underlying transportation system for reliable health-care delivery.
So the Colemans turned to their lifelong love of motorcycles for a solution.
By supplying the appropriate vehicles for different urban and rural needs, and training local communities in the use and maintenance, motorcycles offered a reliable, affordable, and effective healthcare delivery mechanism that would allow access to some of the most remote parts of the world - and deliver necessary health-care services to the people who need it most. . .
So, you can.
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Health Care and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
David Bornstein , Tina Rosenberg The New York Times, 2010-10-18
Maseru, Lesotho
In a mountainous region of Lesotho, a man named Tsepo Kotelo visits 20 villages every week on his new motorcycle to provide health care to local villagers. The Elton John AIDS Foundation gifted the motorcycles to Kotelo and his colleagues, allowing them to increase the number of patients they visit by 600 percent. An organization called Riders for Health helps maintain the bikes, ensuring that remote villages will continue to receive medical care.