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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rodrigo Abd

The rural doctor who travels by donkey to visit his far-flung patients

Public health agent Santos Ramos guides Dr. Jorge Fusaro and their rented mules, along a path of the Cerro Chañi - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A rural doctor travels miles of unforgiving terrain by donkey, enduring cold, rain, wind and exhaustion, to visit several dozen families scattered across the highest mountain in the north of Argentina.

Dr. Jorge Fusaro has organized medical tours three times a year for the past four years across Cerro Chañi in Jujuy. Chañi is considered a sacred mountain by the indigenous Kolla people who live there. It has extreme temperatures, year-round snowy peaks, and is home to animals full of symbolism, like the puma and condor.

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