THE WORLD NEEDS TO TAKE SOME PILLS

You hear it on the news; you see it on the T.V. It’s all saying the same thing: “health care crisis in Africa,” or “health care crisis in Pakistan.” In a few years all you will be hearing is “Health Care crisis in America”. Slowly the monster takes lives in places where people are isolated from hospitals or any form of medication. In places like Africa people are dieing in numbers like 11 million a year. They are suffering of easily cured diseases like pneumonia, diarrhea, or the flue. They have no magical shield (vaccine) like us, or even if they do they would most likely not be able to afford it. But I believe that we can help by sending in doctors to work there. We can save millions of lives considering that about 30,000 people are being diagnosed every day.

Have you ever thought of living in poverty? Of course not, you pay you bills on time, you can afford a plasma TV, and if you do run a little low on money you could just sell that red Ferrari out front. That’s not how life is in developing countries like Pakistan. You live with a family of 6 in a little gardening shed, you have no TV, or running water, you either drink out of a hose or from the ground. In places like this you can get diseases from insects, animals of from the food you eat or drink. If you had medication you could save you and your family’s life. In Africa people have no houses and are living in any refuge they can find, whether it’s and abandoned home or a waste sight infested with rats carrying poison and rabbis. If people would give these poor people medication for fever, flu, diarrhea, and food poisoning they could live. Next the people in Afghanistan, all of their supplies like medication are given to the army. They have very few doctors and millions of people dieing every day. These people are fortunate enough to have at least some sort of help, but not enough. Some people are dieing in the lack of clean drinking water or being bit by spiders and other insects. This is what it is like living in poverty, no wonder you never though about it, its disgusting and un-humane, but we can stop it.

I believe that we can help by sending in doctors to work at these developing countries, this can also help bring up the world’s population. You can help by going to GAP. And donating money, they will use the money to supply people in developing countries like the ones you now no about. If the world takes it’s pills, this disease will retreat.

Yash A.