Medicine train

In Khani, a small village under the snowy peaks of the Stanovoy Mountains in Russia, there is a queue of patients waiting next dropdown. They are waiting for the Matvei Mudrov train –dropdown and twelve to fifteen doctors on board. The Matvei Mudrov runs along dropdown (BAM), a railway line parallel to but 650 kilometres north of the more famous Trans-Siberian line. The Matvei Mudrov takes dropdown. He was one of the first doctors dropdown. Khani is typical of settlements along the BAM, dropdown but now with little access to specialist health care dropdown. Among the people in the queue is dropdown a teenage girl needing a post-operative check-up. dropdown, luckily, was able to get to a town three hours away for treatment. The Matvei Mudrov dropdown although its doctors can offer a diagnosis and dropdown. dropdown those along the BAM have with the rest of the country.