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Doctors increasingly on call for presidential check-ups

The advancing age of African heads of state, who don’t issue bills of health, gives rise to long-established medical practices and procedures. While a leader’s personal doctors cope with his minor ailments foreign hospitals are much in demand for exhaustive [...] (599 words)

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