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Dicing with Death: Guinea, a Forgotten People

It is a country where taxi drivers risk their lives on dangerous roads as they race to deliver medications to the sick people waiting at the other side of the country to have their lives saved. But will they even be able to pay for their medicine when it arrives?

Lying south of Senegal in the west of Africa the story of the populations poverty despite abundant natural resources and mineral reserves under the soil is a familiar story. We take a surreal journey to Guinea-Conakry where there is still a high risk of polio and rabies; diseases that have been mostly eradicated around the world.

We visit the hospital serving 200,000 people that has no electricity, meet the nurse who has to travel 75kms in a rickety ambulance to help her patients and see the children as young as 6 forced to work due to their families poverty. In this country daily life is a struggle to survive.

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PRODUCTION INFO

  • Year: 2013
  • Duration: 52 mins
  • Production: Tony Comiti Productions
  • Director: Philippe Lafaix
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  • Country of production: France

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