MSF Treats Kala Azar in Bihar, India
"In Bihar, India, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) treats people living amid the world's highest concentration of visceral leishmaniasis, also known as kala azar."
As much as I am proud and grateful for MSF to be working towards saving lives in neglected areas of India, I feel like this epitomizes what India has achieved in this new millennium. While the country boasts four billionaires in the top ten list of the richest in the world (according to a recent list published by Forbes), we require international relief agencies to provide basic health care to those in need. Unfortunately I don't see prosperity in my country. I see the ever increasing dichotomy between the rich and poor where those who have made it big spend their money on billion dollar homes, and those who haven't been as fortunate await their plight and hope that maybe an organization like MSF, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation or perhaps a NRI foundation will come to their rescue.
I know there are quite a few generous Indians living in India. However, in a country with a thriving middle and upper middle-class (that numbers almost close to the population of the US) what are we doing wrong if we cannot provide basic health care to the population? And what teachings do our business leaders provide to the next generation by demonstrating such opulence and extravagance. So much for their Harvard degrees. Wish they would take a course from the Buffett's and Gate's of the world. Where has our humanity and humility gone?
As much as I am proud and grateful for MSF to be working towards saving lives in neglected areas of India, I feel like this epitomizes what India has achieved in this new millennium. While the country boasts four billionaires in the top ten list of the richest in the world (according to a recent list published by Forbes), we require international relief agencies to provide basic health care to those in need. Unfortunately I don't see prosperity in my country. I see the ever increasing dichotomy between the rich and poor where those who have made it big spend their money on billion dollar homes, and those who haven't been as fortunate await their plight and hope that maybe an organization like MSF, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation or perhaps a NRI foundation will come to their rescue.
I know there are quite a few generous Indians living in India. However, in a country with a thriving middle and upper middle-class (that numbers almost close to the population of the US) what are we doing wrong if we cannot provide basic health care to the population? And what teachings do our business leaders provide to the next generation by demonstrating such opulence and extravagance. So much for their Harvard degrees. Wish they would take a course from the Buffett's and Gate's of the world. Where has our humanity and humility gone?
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