relatives to buy
The situation in Zimbabwe is dire, to say the least. Here's an excerpt from a blunt 06 April LA Times article on the subject entitled, "Barely able to live, too poor to die."
A young Bulawayo doctor named Nqobile Ncube said many of those who end up in hospitals have little chance.
"You do your ward rounds and you see a patient," Ncube said. "He's in the same condition as the day before. Why? He's not been given the drugs. He is trying to find relatives to buy the drugs for him.
"You go to the next patient. He's dead. It's written on his card, 'Fluids not available; relatives to buy.' It's just 'relatives to buy, relatives to buy, relatives to buy.' "
Full article here.
posted by Peter @ 13:07
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The title of that article is misleading. It sounds like they're exactly poor enough to die.
I often wonder how an outsider (in this case, a white suburbanite) would go about organizing a popularly-supported (maybe even elected) coup to overthrow the Detroit city gov't. That's what it would take to revitalize the area - a systematic abolishment of every nook of persistent power in this city and a clean start.
Sounds like exactly what Zimbabwe (and many of Africa's countries, from the little I've read) needs. A legal destruction of the corrupted gangs and families that run the place, replaced by laws and policies actually intended to help the people.
Hard to tell whether the presence of the UN's various members would be helpful or hindrance. Any idea?
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