Kyrgyz Medic Saddles Up To Help Rural Villagers

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He's the only paramedic in the village and he reaches his patients on horseback. Ziedbek Murzalimov works at a clinic in the town of Nooken in Kyrgyzstan's Jalal-Abad region, but in his spare time, he provides medical care for free in his remote home village of Kirov, 20 kilometers away.