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Dream of a Better Day: The Crisis of Health and Education in Haiti |
| Section: CULTURE / PEOPLES |
| Author: Barbara McClatchie Andrews |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2004 |
| Size: 3,340 Words, 20,383 Characters |
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Marnie, a physician's assistant, chuckles and shrugs. She is relating a conversation she had with a man during triage one morning at the clinic where she works. "Qui problem ou geyen?" (what's the matter?) she had asked in Creole. The weary-looking man replied that his roof leaked. When it rained, his family got wet. Marnie swears that she got the same response from another patient earlier that week.
It would be funny were it not so sad. The anecdote illustrates what is most on the minds of 80 percent of Haiti's population: the struggle to find and maintain a home that might keep them dry, food to nourish their growing children, and the dignity of clean clothes on their backs. These are preoccupations that won't go away, because most Haitians can't meet those needs.
This means that...
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...ors and nurses with appropriate training, and administrators with the vision to lead the Haitian people into the twenty-first century. Failure to meet this challenge will continue to condemn Haitians to the all-too-familiar cycle of poverty, ill-health, and despair. Failure will ensure that Haiti will be unable to cast off its distinction as the most depressed nation in the Western Hemisphere.
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