If they need access to a hospital, people will mortgage their property and take a taxi 150 kilometers to the nearest hospital.

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Raizy Glauber was seven months' pregnant and had not been feeling well, the family said, so the couple called a taxi to take them to hospital.

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One of the occasions on which it went to the expense of hiring a taxi was to take Mrs Williams, pregnant with Gareth, to hospital.

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