Hmm. As a South African, all I can say is you all have it ridiculously good. Here the vast majority of people are forced to go to government hospitals (if they are lucky enough to see a doctor before they die). The hospitals are horrendously understaffed, under-funded, under-stocked, and overworked. Our biggest hospitals sometimes run at something like 50% capacity simply because there are not enough personnel to run them. If you have the cash you can use private hospitals, which are mostly ok, but most people have nothing.
Ironically we produce some of the world's finest doctors, mainly because they are forced to deal with anything and everything from the word go.
Oh, and our government is talking of implementing universal healthcare. I shudder to think how much of disaster that would be right now. And yet I still think it is the way to (eventually) go. No worldview which espouses looking out for others (this includes christianity, islam, atheism, etc) can honestly deny someone in suffering relief. I think the problem most people have with the idea is that the helping is being done on a largely impersonal scale.
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Hmm. As a South African, all I can say is you all have it ridiculously good. Here the vast majority of people are forced to go to government hospitals (if they are lucky enough to see a doctor before they die). The hospitals are horrendously understaffed, under-funded, under-stocked, and overworked. Our biggest hospitals sometimes run at something like 50% capacity simply because there are not enough personnel to run them. If you have the cash you can use private hospitals, which are mostly ok, but most people have nothing.
Ironically we produce some of the world's finest doctors, mainly because they are forced to deal with anything and everything from the word go.
Oh, and our government is talking of implementing universal healthcare. I shudder to think how much of disaster that would be right now. And yet I still think it is the way to (eventually) go. No worldview which espouses looking out for others (this includes christianity, islam, atheism, etc) can honestly deny someone in suffering relief. I think the problem most people have with the idea is that the helping is being done on a largely impersonal scale.
January 24, 2010 - 3:24pmThis Comment
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