Dying for change: Voices of the poor on healthcare

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My visit to the village over the weekend brought me face to face with the devastating irreversible consequences of the failing public health system to the rural poor. This is what the Doctors have been crying out aloud for. I was told of an old man in the neigbouring village who passed on with a cry, that he was dying for change in the hearts of those in charge of the health systems to remember the poor.

In his 2001 address to the World Health Assembly, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said:" The biggest enemy of health in the developing world is poverty".