Everyone needs health insurance
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In Malawi, mothers often wait with sick children only to find that hospitals have run out of medicine. Clinicians write prescriptions that cannot be filled at the public facility. This forces poor parents to buy necessary drugs from private pharmacies. Many families must borrow money to afford these costs. These debts often last long after the child has recovered.
Every Malawian knows this story. A mother sits on a hospital bench with a feverish child on her lap. The clinician writes a prescription, but medicine is finished. The poor woman is told to buy it at a private pharmacy. She has to borrow money. Long after her child is well, the debt is still … The post Everyone needs health insurance appeared first on Nation Online .