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Let Us Fight For Health As Human Right, Says Crusading Doctor
A professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Farmer is also a founding director of the Partners In Health that can be seen working in such extremely backward pockets like Lesotho in the African continent or Haiti nearer home.
In Lesotho, for instance, its difficult to get around. Villages in the mountain kingdom are sometimes accessible only by single-engine propeller aircraft or on horseback. There are often no roads in rural areas and patients must walk hours to clinics, which are extremely difficult for the critically ill, and transporting patients and medical supplies is often an ordeal.
The nonprofit organization Riders for Health is working to help change this by donating ultra-rugged motorcycles for PIH Lesotho staff to use. The vehicles are expected to greatly enhance health-care delivery, allowing health workers to regularly and reliably visit communities previously inaccessible except on foot.
In their holiday message, Ophelia Dahl, President and Executive Director of the Partner in Health and Dr. Farmer recounted a Haiti experience:
It was 4:00 in the morning on September 3 when one of the assistant social workers called me to tell me that the city of Hinche was flooded. The first thing that ran through my mind was to get up and go search for our HIV patients. - Ermaze Louis Pierre
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