Use BBC.com or the new BBC App to listen to BBC podcasts, Radio 4 and the World Service outside the UK.

Find out how to listen to other BBC stations

Episode details

World Service,11 Sep 1996,13 mins

Helping Others Against The Odds

Health Matters

Available for over a year

Three remarkable stories of three men who are pioneering tremendous changes in health care against all the odds. One is a former polio sufferer who is determined to help disabled people in Nigeria and promote sport for the handicapped. Also, how the dedication of a Ukrainian neurosurgeon has inspired a British colleague to help him help his patients in the former Soviet republic.

Programme Website
More episodes