Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Art and Science of Laboratory Medicine

Friday, January 8, 2016

Meet the young women leading the way in Ethiopia's TB fight

The person who saved his life wasn’t a doctor, or a nurse. It was a 24-year-old woman from his village called Anuma Moreda, who hadn’t finished school. Alerted to Guta’s symptoms by his cousin, she examined him and sent a sputum sample to the local hospital. When the result came back positive, Moreda supervised his treatment and nursed him back to health.

This is the future of healthcare, Ethiopian-style. In a country where 22 per cent of the population lives below the poverty line, and there are just three doctors for every 100,000 people – compared with 30 or 40 in Europe – the government has pioneered a strategy that would be unthinkable in most developed countries.

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Meet the young women leading the way in Ethiopia's TB fight

Source: The New Scientist




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