Medical help arrives by sea to Greece's isolated islands

The back of the first vehicle opens onto a dental surgery and a mammography booth. Inside the second truck, obstetric gynaecologist Panagiotis Thomopoulos awaits his first patients among Sikinos's fewer than 200 full-time inhabitants. "We carry out all the routine gynaecological examinations and colposcopies or smear tests" for cervical cancer screening, explained the doctor, who is employed at an Athens hospital. Converted into medical examination units, the trucks are part of a campaign funded...