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...sorry state of India's medical services might not matter so much if tens of millions of Indians weren't already so sick. Part of the problem is the lack of infrastructure - not fancy hospitals or equipment but basic services such as clean water, a functioning sewage system, power. The World Health Organization estimates that more than 900,000 Indians die every year from drinking bad water and breathing bad air. The Indian government says that 55% of households have no toilet facilities. Many cities lack sewers. The missing infrastructure is not unique to India. Parts of Africa face similar...
...Such dire conditions force millions of people to head to the better public hospitals in India's cities. The Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital (RML) in New Delhi is well maintained, relatively clean and is probably one of the best. Unlike most hospitals, which get their funding from state governments, the RML is financed directly by the central government and caters to the thousands of public servants and senior government officers, including members of Parliament, who are lucky enough to have state-funded medical insurance. But its high standards are also a magnet for sick people for hundreds of miles...
...crowds of patients and visiting relatives are as thick and suffocating as the heady fug of chloroform and the sounds of children screaming. A few cases on trolley beds wait outside under a small awning. Though generally well kept, "it's very hard to maintain cleanliness even if you clean every half an hour," says the head of the outpatient department, Dr. P.K. Misra, waving his hand at a heap of bloodied sheets in a corner. "I have visited a few hospitals in the U.S. They are like five-star hotels for us. But we can never match that...
...course, those parents might not want to let their 6-year-olds watch a show about a teen pop star. But Cyrus has based her career--and Disney its franchise--on offering a safe harbor. The squeaky-clean Hannah promises, as the theme song goes, "the best of both worlds": a big-girl pop-star story scrubbed of the scary Britneyness. When parents see Cyrus' bedroom eyes or Internet pictures of her flashing her bra, they feel--just as when Zoey 101's 16-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears got pregnant--baited and switched...
...Hussein's personal pilot. Salbi's mother believed strongly in her daughter's education and encouraged her not to assume the traditional female role in Iraqi society. "Do not become a prisoner," Salbi remembers her mother telling her over and over again. "Marry for love. Don't learn to clean and cook, because then that is all you will ever do." But when Salbi turned 20, her mother insisted that she accept a marriage proposal from an Iraqi man living in the U.S. Salbi was bewildered and furious but did as she was told. She arrived...