Everyone has the right to a healthy and fulfilling life. Access to affordable and quality healthcare is essential for wellbeing, reducing poverty, and realizing this entitlement.
There are 30 million people in China who earn less than ¥ 1 per day (about US 14¢.) They are the ultra-poor, living in mountainous and isolated areas throughout Western China.
Surmang, in remote Qinghai province, is one such place. Living close to the earth, their natural environment is pristine and untouched by development. Living as traditional farmers or nomadic herders, their lifestyle is much the same as their ancestor's. Unfortunately, their world is also shadowed by medieval maternal and childhood risk.
The economic miracle of the coastal regions has not reached these remote people.
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