Health
Various types of medical facilities and personnel provide primary health care in the Western region. These include hospitals, private hospitals, maternity hospitals, and allopathic (orthodox) doctors and their support staff including nurses, pharmacists and public health personnel on hand in every village in the region, traditional healing centres, traditional healers including herbalists, and homeopaths. The official Western region norm is that no citizen of the Western region should be more than 8 kilometres away from the nearest health facility.
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