Making it Real

 

Some people have the privilege of medical knowledge and expertise.   

 

There is no doubt that the greatest need for health workers is in the developing world.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Very few health professionals are willing to give up their well paid jobs to work for less or to volunteer in the developing world.    In the developing world there is a “brain drain”  where health workers leave to practise medicine in rich countries where they get highly paid.  There are more Ethiopian physicians practicing in Chicago today than in all of Ethiopia, a country of 80 million!
 
But all of us can share what  health we have if we want to help bring some healing to those who are sick.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For example...  Blood donors share  their health with others.

 

Another example of sharing health is organ donations.   Thousands of people die waiting for a kidney transplant every year because most healthy people do not know that they can save someone’s life and live perfectly well with only one kidney.  In the UK there have been over 100 altruistic LIVING kidney donations  (given by people to people they didn’t know).

 

  

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

Visiting the sick is a way of sharing your time to help heal the sick.  It’s often the only way of knowing and
providing what patients need.  

 

People suffering from mental  health problems (apparently that’s one in four of us) need extra love, understanding  compassion and company to help the healing process .  Most sick people need basic practical help that any healthy person could give.  Sharing time,  knowledge, care and resources brings healing to the sick.