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I met a man yesterday, a professional with a good job, but not someone who has more than enough to live on. His small daughter has a life-threatening but curable condition, and doctors here say she has to go to the US for the treatment. He now faces the agony of having to go cap-in-hand to everyone he knows, pull all possible strings he has, to collect the money (which is probably about the equivalent of his annual salary) if his daughter's life is to be saved. If he is not successful, it's a death sentence. I can't even begin to imagine what that must feel like, and hope I never have to.
Life expectancy in the DR can be pretty low if you can't afford health care. I know that my cleaner's neighbours, friends and relatives pop off at an alarming rate, at relatively young ages, simply because that's what happens if you're poor and are unlucky enough to fall ill.
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<table border="0" cellpadding="6" cellspacing="0" width="100%"> <tbody><tr> <td class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset ;"> Originally Posted by Chirimoya
I met a man yesterday, a professional with a good job, but not someone who has more than enough to live on. His small daughter has a life-threatening but curable condition, and doctors here say she has to go to the US for the treatment. He now faces the agony of having to go cap-in-hand to everyone he knows, pull all possible strings he has, to collect the money (which is probably about the equivalent of his annual salary) if his daughter's life is to be saved. If he is not successful, it's a death sentence. I can't even begin to imagine what that must feel like, and hope I never have to.
Life expectancy in the DR can be pretty low if you can't afford health care. I know that my cleaner's neighbours, friends and relatives pop off at an alarming rate, at relatively young ages, simply because that's what happens if you're poor and are unlucky enough to fall ill.
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