johnb
2009-07-06 08:36:22
I remember it well. I was working in Peru in 1975-76 during the revolution.
The medical care wasn’t any better before the author’s experience either.
Tainted water was a fact of life you either dealt with, or you got sick. I remember visiting a doctor in Lima regarding an ongoing problem I had, (my fear was Hep-C), only to be told by the doctor that the reason I was not getting better was that I must have sinned and God was punishing me.
I left for the USA on the next available plane.
