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...Israel intensifies its air campaign, the casualty rate in the area is increasing, but the number of wounded arriving at the Jabel Amel hospital in this port town is declining. The reason is simple. "They can't get here," says Doctor Ahmad Mrowe, the hospital's director. All main roads and most minor routes have been severed in multiple places by massive air bombs that gouge out yawning craters, making for a lengthy and terrifying experience for anyone brave or desperate enough to travel; one new patient had spent eight hours on the road, shuttled by eight separate vehicles...
...This is what happens when possessions take the place of emotions." --WARREN ADLER, author of The War of the Roses--about a rich couple's deadly divorce--on the doctor who allegedly leveled his New York City home last week to keep his soon-to-be ex-wife from getting the house...
...This is much worse than 1996," says Doctor Ahmad Mrowe, the director of the hospital. "Back then we were receiving old people and resistance fighters. This time it's almost all women and children. We haven't seen one resistance man," he adds, referring to Hizballah guerrillas. He said that the hospital has received 196 casualties, including 25 dead. "We don't need democracy," he says. "We just want to live." The basement of the hospital is packed with casualties and their anxious relatives who have fled their homes from neighboring villages to sleep on thin mattresses in the corridors...
When Americans think about the problem of getting modern medical care to the people in Africa who need it most, Anthony Okello is not the solution that comes immediately to mind. He's a medicine man, apprenticed as a teenager to the wandering witch doctor who treated him for a fever that other doctors couldn't cure. When a patient goes to Okello complaining of rashes and diarrhea, as Lucy Ajam did recently, he recognizes the typical symptoms of AIDS for what they are. He immediately sent Ajam to the nearest hospital to start her on antiretroviral drugs (ARVs...
...planning to use its money to provide ARVs to every Ugandan who needs them, but the flood of money for medical care is running into a roadblock common in almost every Third World country: an infrastructure incapable of delivering it. In Uganda, for example, there is only one doctor for every 20,000 citizens--and there far fewer doctors in rural areas like Alenga. It's a challenge simply to identify the needy in this country, much less ensure that patients stick to their therapies...