Mothers and children, husbands and wives, doctors, truck drivers and religious leaders are all grappling with the fallout ...

From the pulpit, Reverend Billiance Chondwe counts ... "I'm moving like a headless chicken now just to try and make things happen." He says he worries about all the patients who can't make it ...

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