Word: zairians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most countries is the state-run health-care system. Many poorly equipped facilities are already badly strained by a flood of AIDS patients. One study noted that the cost of treating ten AIDS patients in the U.S. -- about $450,000 -- is more than the entire budget of one large Zairian hospital. Clinics and hospitals are now routinely discharging AIDS patients after emergency treatment to make room for those who can be effectively treated. Doctors often have to make painful decisions. A case of bacterial pneumonia can be cured with $5 or $6 worth of drugs, for example, while cryptococcal meningitis...
While the buying power of the average Zairian citizen is 70 per cent less today than in 1960, President Mobotu Sese Seko, who "serves the interests of the multinational corporations," is one of the richest men in the world, she said...