Thursday, March 6, 2014
First Post: Sara Elsea
"This is the season when they bury the children who cannot be carried to the doctor on the other side of that river." (11). This made me wonder about how we have so much here and we take it for granted. We can drive to the hospitals to see doctors. Children here don't usually die from a fever because we have medicine for them to take. Places like where Lakshma lives see's her village sad when the cold months come. "This is the season when the women bury the children who die of fever"(10).According to Irinnews.org, "Pneumonia, diarrhea, under-nutrition, measles and acute respiratory infections kill nearly 65,000 children under five every year, according to UNICEF. between 1996 and 2006, Nepal has cut its under-five mortality rate by almost half in the past 15 years. One of the key measures in doing this has been extensive anti-measles immunization and vitamin A national campaigns in the country - with immunization rates increasing from 43 to 83 percent. Over 95 percent of five-month-old to five-year-old children receive at least one annual vitamin A supplement, an essential human nutrient, according to UNICEF."
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I actually used one of the same quotes as you, the one on page 10. The reason I chose this quote was quite similar to yours. When I read about people dying just from fevers I found it incredible the difference between what I read and what we have in the United States. I researched the medicines and vaccines you need to get before you go to nepal, there are so many different vaccinations that you need to get before you go to prevent diseases. My thought was that what happens to the people in Nepal who can't afford to get the medicine and vaccinations. Will just just get a common disease and eventually die?
ReplyDeleteShannon, you need to find someone who is wondering about something different, do some further research and add it to their research.
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