An Australian NGO working in Solomon Islands says there's a desperate shortage of artificial limbs after the country's only prosthetics workshop shut down.
Motivation Australia estimates there are hundreds of prosthetics needed to address a diabetes crisis but no way to make them locally.
Its chief executive Kylie Mines spoke to Mackenzie Smith, who began by asking how bad the situation is.
Prosthetic limbs being manufactured in the Port Moresby General Hospital compound Photo: madNESS Photography 2013
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