Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
JEAN-PAUL was 12 when he died. A diabetic, he might well have lived if not for a tragically simple problem, common in rural Haiti: the glucose test strips available did not match the only glucometer we had access to in our rudimentary district hospital.
We are doctors ? one American, one Irish ? who worked as volunteers at the town hospital in Haiti?s desperately poor central plateau last spring. On the storm-drenched night that Jean-Paul arrived at the emergency room, we rushed to him through corridors clattering as if glass were breaking, as rain pelted down and leaked through the tin roof, forming puddles and muddy rivulets on the floor.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/opinion/a-haitian-boys-needless-death.html
We are doctors ? one American, one Irish ? who worked as volunteers at the town hospital in Haiti?s desperately poor central plateau last spring. On the storm-drenched night that Jean-Paul arrived at the emergency room, we rushed to him through corridors clattering as if glass were breaking, as rain pelted down and leaked through the tin roof, forming puddles and muddy rivulets on the floor.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/15/opinion/a-haitian-boys-needless-death.html