Reliable transport of primary healthcare services is severely lacking in large rural areas of many developing countries. Young children and mothers are deprived of this basic human right which restricts development in more ways than missed school attendance.The type of health services include vaccinations and nutrition for infants, collection for analysis of blood samples in treating malaria and dengue fever (among other illnesses), health education for mothers and other forms of primary healthcare in rural communities.
A high proportion of the population of developing countries are not getting the health services they are entitled to because health ministry motorcycles and other vehicles used to deliver them are not working, or are completely absent. This is because training and ongoing mechanical needs are ignored. Repairs to fix mechanical problems caused by lack of preventive maintenance are prohibitively expensive, so these repairs are rarely made. In many cases poor road conditions (if there are indeed roads at all) mean that many preventable and curable diseases are never treated.
The real victims of this lack of vehicle upkeep are rural populations, who suffer from a severe shortage of basic health care.
Motorcycle Outreach (MoR) introduces a proven method of ensuring that vehicles don't break down, thereby providing dependable and sustainable health services to remote populations. Motorcycle Outreach works closely with the UK Charity Riders for Health (RfH) so that the pioneering system of 'zero breakdown' vehicle management, which was developed in some African countries by RfH can be introduced in other developing world countries on other continents – specifically South East Asia, Indonesia and Latin America. Through a process of training people to train local people in vehicle management, health ministries in the target countries will be able to operate vehicles that never break down, however difficult the road conditions may be. The lifespan of vehicles can be expected to double or triple, the vehicles would never be out of action for repairs and populations would receive the health services they are entitled to on a reliable basis.
