Bittersweet Bateys

A sick elderly man lies on a mattress on the floor of his daughter's one-room shack in Batey Ocadulna, Jan. 5, 2014. With no accessible transportation aside from motorbikes, even if a family can afford medical treatment for loved ones, transporting the sick or elderly to distant hospitals proves a significant problem.

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A sick elderly man lies on a mattress on the floor of his daughter's one-room shack in Batey Ocadulna, Jan. 5, 2014. With no accessible transportation aside from motorbikes, even if a family can afford medical treatment for loved ones, transporting the sick or elderly to distant hospitals proves a significant problem.