Like in undeveloped countries residents of rural areas must travel long distances through extreme weather conditions, challenging roads, and other climatic barriers to receiving medical attention. Keeping with this trend, the medical facilities available to them usually have limited resources and lack specialty doctors. The time from which the medical emergency arises to treatment can be critical for the person's recovery and is greatly increased in rural areas as opposed to those of urbanized ones. These difficulties may prevent the patient from attending follow up appointments to ensure there are no other complications and ensure they have returned to good health, if this appointment is missed it can be detrimental to the person’s long-term
Like in undeveloped countries residents of rural areas must travel long distances through extreme weather conditions, challenging roads, and other climatic barriers to receiving medical attention. Keeping with this trend, the medical facilities available to them usually have limited resources and lack specialty doctors. The time from which the medical emergency arises to treatment can be critical for the person's recovery and is greatly increased in rural areas as opposed to those of urbanized ones. These difficulties may prevent the patient from attending follow up appointments to ensure there are no other complications and ensure they have returned to good health, if this appointment is missed it can be detrimental to the person’s long-term