Global Health Unfiltered Blog
If Access to Health Care Is a Human Right, Why Isn’t Breast Reconstruction?
So what message do we send when mastectomy is covered but reconstruction is not? That survival matters, but dignity does not? That women are human enough to live, but not human enough to heal fully?
If access to care is a right, then access to complete care is the standard. Let’s meet it.
What Use Is Survival If We Abandon Patients to a Lifetime of Disability?
As a medical student in Ghana, I have seen children rushed in with severe burns, their families traveling hours from rural areas only to be told there is no bed in the specialized burn unit.
Even when a patient finds a bed, the reality can be grim. Overcrowded wards, limited sterile supplies, and inadequate hygiene practices sometimes cause more harm than good