Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Helping a third world nation

Hipparchia has alerted me to a worthy organization that is helping a third world nation with its health care needs. Hundreds of volunteer doctors, optometrists, and dentists volunteer a weekend every few months to help people in third world nations with their basic health care and dental care needs. The number of people they treat is a drop in the bucket, but it's better than nothing.

The only question is why they have to go to the particular third world nation where 2/3rds of their efforts are focused, given that said third world nation has the resources to provide health care to all its citizens -- but simply refuses to do so. Watch the video for more info:

-- Badtux the Health Care Penguin

Posted by BadTux at 9/16/2008 01:02:00 PM
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