Comments on: Basic Health Care Doesn’t Have to Be of Basic Quality

By: Adeyinka Dawodu

Adeyinka Dawodu — Tue, 09 Oct 2012 13:07:28 +0000

Thanks for sharing this! I just cited you in one of my papers where I mentioned the benefits of taking “learning journeys”.

By: BYENUME-UGANDA.

BYENUME-UGANDA. — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 18:38:32 +0000

BYENUME-UGANDA. Health issues are also affected by the attitude of the implementers/ health workers. What is seen as minor, can be complicated by their delay / laxity of the so called technical staff.

By: Denny

Denny — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:47:13 +0000

You mentioned that access to basic healthcare is usually taken for granted in the U.S. but is seen as a matter of luck in Africa. I am certainly not trying to discourage what you advocate regarding health care in other parts of the world. Question: should “basic” health care in Africa and in other underdeveloped countries be patterned after the “basic” health care in the U.S.? Where am I going with this? I have a friend who spent just over three hours in the emergency room at a small suburban hospital for a urinary infection. Other than a series of x-rays and an intravenous antibiotic, very little was done for my friend at the hospital. In my opinion, this was “basic” medical care. Her bill was $4,600.00. Is this an example of what will happen in other countries as they become more industrialized and more technologically advanced?

By: jasmin

jasmin — Thu, 19 May 2011 17:14:58 +0000

Basic healthcare should not mean basic health quality. The main idea is still to make health care accessible to rural communities especially to the poor. There are many organizations I knew that pursue access to it but the fact still remain that poverty continues to contribute to poor health, and poor health anchors large populations in poverty and at the end putting the lives, livelihoods and health of many people at stake. One solution I see is that the government and international organizations should take the lead in providing health services to the people in rural areas and do a lot of effort to provide higher level of health education especially to those area with lack of communications like telephones and public transport.