Super strong bikes help transform healthcare in rural Uganda

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Super strong bikes help transform healthcare in rural Uganda  Health workers in Uganda and people in the rural communities they serve say they're enjoying the benefits of having bikes especially designed for rugged terrain  READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/06/20/super-strong-bikes-help-transform-healthcare-in-rural-uganda  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00Susan Apio is a community health worker in northern Uganda where she serves about 8,000 people.

00:10The Buffalo Bicycle is her means of transport.

00:14With a strong steel frame, the Buffalo is not like regular bikes.

00:19With it, Apio can navigate rough rural roads to serve those in need.

00:23That is the most important thing that this bike is doing here in this community.

00:30There are people who are with underlying conditions.

00:33They pick their ARVs from our facility and I know them.

00:37So sometimes I also get busy.

00:40But whenever they come, they pick their bikes, they go and pick what? Their drugs.

00:45The bicycle is also seen as a community asset.

00:49Anyone in her village can show up and ask to use it.

00:52Barbara Akelo says she has used the bicycle at least six times already.

00:58The first was for transport to an antenatal check-up.

01:01When I was pregnant, the date I'm going back for antenatal,

01:08I can inform her that tomorrow when you are going, come and help me, you carry me there,

01:14because I'm not having a transport.

01:17Help me so that I can reach there very early, but I can come back while footing.

01:21But she always says, I will take you and then I will bring you back.

01:27With Uganda battling inadequate facilities and a shortage of health workers,

01:31community workers like Apio help to bridge the gap,

01:35carrying out sensitization, immunization and detecting disease outbreaks.

01:39I know they are supporting us with sensitization at community level.

01:45They are also supporting us also identify certain ill-health conditions at community level.

01:55Like of recent, we have heard of the MPOX outbreak in our country,

02:00and they are our primary eyes at community level.

02:06The Buffalo Bicycle is a recent arrival.

02:09It is promoted by World Bicycle Relief,

02:12a non-profit which seeks to reduce mobility challenges in poor and rural settings in Africa.

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