According to the World Health Organization, by 2030 more people will die each year from traffic related deaths than from Malaria and TB. Yet cancer, stroke, heart disease and HIV/AIDS will all increase significantly. Sadly, in spite of spending 4.1 trillion dollars on health care around the world in 2004, we are still in a place where nurses in Kenya are having to boil used needles over a fire before reusing them to serve people with AIDS and HIV, Doctors in Sudan are having to use tin can lids to perform surgery because there are no scalpels and blades and no anesthesia. Patients in Vietnam are sharing beds in maternity wards. Doctors in Mexico are lacking casting material to mend broken bones and amputation is the offered alternative. Latex gloves are commonly reused on a worldwide level. This may seem a helpless situation in which you wonder what you can do and yet you can make a difference in people’s lives in many creative ways. Please go to “What you can do” to find out more.
- information from Project Cure