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Once he had become closely acquainted with the woeful lack of medical treatment for Haiti’s poor—and gotten his medical degree from HMS—Farmer didn’t hesitate to attack these problems head...
...Rather than focus on something very simple that would be in-and-out, he asked people there what they really needed,” says Joia Mukherjee, the medical director of Partners in Health (PIH), the non-profit medical organization which Farmer and close colleague Jim Y. Kim founded in 1987. “And they said, ‘We need a hospital, because we’re very ill.’ So he built the hospital...
...hospital was the Clinique Bon Saveur, which Farmer established in Cange in 1985. It is still going strong—and its services are still necessary for the ever-growing health problems of Haiti’s poorest...
...field of international public health is a mess because of no funding,” Farmer says. “So of course people in this arena have set their sights low. Our own view was that we need to raise more money rather than lamenting the lack of it and setting standards lower for poor people...
...essence, Farmer was fighting to convince the WHO to reinterpret what they saw as a hard bottom line and trying to impose his personal, hands-on approach on an entire system...