What Happens When a Nomad Gets Sick? Healing on the Mongolian Steppe  | SLICE | FULL DOC @SLICEDocumentary
What Happens When a Nomad Gets Sick? Healing on the Mongolian Steppe  | SLICE | FULL DOC  @SLICEDocumentary
Uploaded June 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Ogui is a 35-year-old nomadic doctor and livestock herder in the vast Mongolian steppe — a woman caught between two worlds.
Born to nomadic herder parents during Mongolia’s communist era, she now raises two young daughters with her husband Bayarmagnaî while navigating the challenges of a rapidly changing country.

Since 2011, Ogui has been delivering frontline medical care across the steppe, traveling from camp to camp in her mobile clinic — a traditional yurt outfitted with basic medical supplies and modern tools. Through blizzards, isolation, and rugged terrain, she reaches the most remote communities that hospitals will never see.

Ogui belongs to a generation of transition — from communism to democracy, from ancient traditions to the pressures of globalization. As both healer and herder, she’s trying to preserve a thousand-year-old nomadic way of life while guiding it into the 21st century. Her story is a powerful reflection on cultural survival, innovation, and the quiet strength of women on the front lines of change.


Documentary: Ogui, Doctor on the Mongolian Steppe
Directed by: Antoine Brice, Thibault Férié
Production : Flair Production, Tita Production, Kwanza, Ushuaïa TV, Arte, SWR, RBB et Cine+

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