Global News by Tag: healthcare
BUCHAREST, ROMANIA – Mariuca Niculae, 75, is waiting in the hall of the Regina Maria Social Polyclinic in Bucharest, Romania’s capital. She says she is at the clinic because she suffers from “terrible heartaches.”
“It’s like a claw,” she says, describing the pain. “It never goes away.”
BULAWAYO, ZIMBABWE – In Zimbabwe, where one in 10 people are HIV-positive, the response to the AIDS crisis has been described as slow, weak and selective.
Here, hundreds of people living with AIDS who should be receiving free treatment die for lack of medication and nutrition, thanks to a healthcare infrastructure that is marred by bribery and corruption.
KATHMANDU, NEPAL -- The dialysis machine at Bir Hospital, the country's oldest hospital, runs constantly.
Chunni Deuja, 34, is lying on a bed with three other patients. Sometimes she wiggles uncomfortably in the tight space. Sometimes she moans aloud. Two needles peek out of a blood vessel near the wrist of her left hand. The needles, one to capture the impure blood and the other to return the blood after purifying it, are attached to the whirring dialysis machine next to the bed.