Medical Journal Myopia Regarding Third World Health Care
It seems to me that unless you are Mother Teresa, you are not going to stay in a Zimbabwe ruled by thugs and slipping ever more quickly in barbarity (if not already there) and, reading between the lines, it seems that the contemplated solution–covered up by all of the gobbledy gook and politically correct, camouflaging terminology–is to just intimidate or blackmail Zimbabwean doctors into staying in Zimbabwe.
I am reminded of the advice I read years ago (and I have no reason to believe that advice would not be the same given today) in an official U.S. State Department “Post Report” for our diplomatic staff on what to do in one of the countries in Africa–it may, indeed, have been Zimbabwe–if you were very sick or severely injured and had to rely on local treatment.
You had to head for the capitol city for treatment, but were warned that, even there–in a country in which AIDS and every conceivable kind to disease and infection were at epidemic levels–they routinely reused steel needles over and over again on multiple patients without ever sterilizing them.
