Struggle for Health = Death

by Nick Velissaris, 10C

Millions of children have died to the lack of health care their country has provided for its people. Health Care has been an ongoing issue in Haiti and many other countries that either deal with poverty or some sort of long hard recovery from a disaster. Millions of people are still in refugee camps even three years later. This recovery is going to take lots of time and we need to have the international community help. The only way to get Haiti back and running after this from lack of medicine and health is in the hands off you and the rest of the world.

            Haiti has been struggling because they have lack of health care. The country does not have enough medicine to provide for its people. They had little money food and medicine. Millions of people died because they were unable to have health care.

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In the book that I recently read called “Mountains beyond Mountains" the book is about a medic who goes to places that need health and he supplies it for them. When he went to Haiti to provide health care to those who were in  need in medicine, which they did not have. It was his job to go in a stop the madness. After reading this book I was really sad about how some many children were dying and it makes me wonder about the kids that are my age and live in haiti they are struggling to survive.

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Today, in the World many countries struggle to survive due to a lack in health care and it can sometimes be fatal. “Some 800 women die every day during pregnancy and childbirth and for each of these deaths, another 20 women endure lifelong suffering because of injury, infection, disease or disabilities stemming from pregnancy, childbirth or an unsafe abortion." (amnestyusa.org) This quote is very heartbreaking to me because I think about the children who never got to see their mothers or remember them and how some others take going to the doctor for check ups for granted, and in other countries people can’t even see the doctor and they could end up dying. I have another quote on how bad things can get when a country lacks in health care, “In Haiti, tetanus is still a major public health problem. In 2008, only 53% of the Haitian population was vaccinated against diphtus”(JSTOR.org) This quote really sticks out to me, because it shows how only half of Haiti has the opportunity to get vaccinated for a deadly disease and some who don’t get vaccinated could end up dying.

Many of us can come together and use our strength to enact change in the global community. For example, we can spread the word on how their is a lack of health care in Haiti and supply money for the red cross to donate medication for those in need in Haiti. Another example is, to raise awareness by doing walks or food drives to donate food and money to those countries in need. I think that we read nonfiction books to know real facts that occur all over the world and to give us better information on what is happening. Rather than fiction books which are not real, non-fiction book are real and they provide real stories on global issues which could allow the community to get involved. Writing can be a tool to change society because people can read a book and it can really affect their emotions. The story can be about a global issue and after someone reads about how someone or some people dealt with the issue and it was tragic, the reader might want to call to action and help prevent the issue.