SOUP KITCHENS (fwd)
Alan Horowitz
alanh at infi.net
Sat Aug 3 23:33:32 PDT 1996
Famine and inadequate nourishment does weaken the stamina and
survivability of individuals in the Third World, but the main problem is
non-access to (what we consider to be) simple, basic medical modalities.
Untold numbers of African babies die of not-very-virulent diseases,
because they becomes fatally dehydrated. In the West, these babies
revieve IV fluids which carries them over the critical period. In a
village that is three days walk to a bus which takes 16 hours to get to a
clinic that has IV needles and sterile fluids, the baby WILL die.
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