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This train has no first-class carriages
and it rides on some of the oldest rack in South Africa.
It's called Phelophepa or the Good Health Train.
The train's mission is to bring basic healthcare
to the forgotten people of rural South Africa.
Its philosophy: a nation without health is a nation without hope.
Dr Lillian Cingo left England six years ago
to return to rural South Africa where she was born and bred.
36 weeks a year, she and 40 staff and medical students live on the train.
Phelophepa travels 10,000 miles a year
to reach communities in need,
taking two years to cover the whole of the country.
In the West, there are basic things that everybody expects and has.
There's a doctor, a dentist
and yet here people wait for ten years, 30 years
before they get seen.
And the majority of people do live in these rural areas.