Cote d'Ivoire: Free Health Care, for Now

Many public hospitals in the country are overflowing as people rush to benefit from a brief period of free medical services, announced by the government as part of the recovery from months of post-election violence.

An Ivorian Red Cross volunteer providing first aid to an injured man at the scene of the violence.

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