Health Care After Genocide
One of the issues we face in America relates to health care. There are a number of ways to approach this issue. Personally, I believe we need to be creating a world where sharing by all means scarcity for none. Let me tell you what I’ll be experiencing in Rwanda today.
We will visit the Kigali Health Institute today, an educational institution established in 1996 because health care was basically non-existent following the genocide. Many times in the health care field we can feel overwhelmed as we extend ourselves to a handful of patients under our care. Try to wrap your mind around this figure: “After the genocide the doctor-patient ratio was 1:55,705 and the nurse-patient ratio was 1:6,365.” Related fields of care like radiology, physical therapy, lab technicians and so many more “were completely non-existent.”
We will also visit a home for orphaned children administered by a 77 year old woman from the United States who, along with volunteers, provides a boarding school, a small health facility and a place of refuge for children.
I pray that you will have a good week. While many things today will be quite depressing, I am certain my trip is helping me to be a better world citizen. Peace, friends.
Ben Keckler
08.18.08
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