"I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve" Albert Schweitzer

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Free Medical Care Ends For Haitians

For the fifth day now, Lubin Rosenie waited in the sweltering hallway of Hôpital Adventiste d'Haïti's emergency department, patients buzzing in and out as she held her gut. Dressed in a spotless blouse and crisp denim skirt, her misery was only betrayed by her undone belt and the way her face tightened as she described her worsening symptoms, how the hospital wouldn't remove the fibroids growing in her uterus unless she paid $400.  If Rosenie had only come before July 12, the six-month anniversary of the earthquake, when the Haitian government lifted its mandate that all medical care be free, she might have gotten her surgery.
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