Doctors Without Borders

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Living In Emergency: Doctors Without Borders All over the world, nations that have succumbed to their war-torn or underprivileged circumstances with awfully limited hospitals and an abundance of their citizens have never seen a doctor in their life. This film, directed by Mark Hopkins, focuses on the stories of four specialists that work within Medecins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) and go into regions, similar to ones previously described, that are in dire need of medical assistance. Specifically the film focuses on areas of the Congo, currently a conflict zone, and Liberia, a nation that was torn apart by a 15 year Civil War. These four MSF doctors struggle to provide the demanding medical attention due to their frustrations, …show more content…

No country is the same even though some nations have similarities. A lack of healthcare in other regions is deliberated but rarely tackled when compared to other issues of the world. Most people allow the issue of public health to fade into the background, leaving it unsolved. That is the problem and it is only going to worsen. These regions call for the same amount of medical attention that is available in other parts of the world. The film demonstrates this issue by providing actual events to show how different the healthcare is in other regions. This difference needs to be shown because as portrayed in the film, in order to be somewhat solved the conditions and medical matters require attention by others in the international community. The lack of attention results in the ongoing situations like Liberia, Congo, Darfur, Sri Lanka, and other places all over the …show more content…

Progression in global health has been shown through increased health funding but it is not enough. There is always a lack of supplies, vaccines, attention, etc. for these medical issues in regions that cannot provide for themselves. The doctors and volunteers come from nations that have the required medical tools but they are forced to work under the conditions of these impoverished states. For example, in the film the doctor David Gill based in Foya, tries to communicate he needs help and supplies but that does not get a response. He has to reuse gloves, sometimes not even use gloves, and dressing necessary for cases are not available. Lack of the necessary medical tools that the doctors are used to in their home countries and are forced to use low-grade medicine to compromise, making them not as good as they could be. Aiding the less fortunate nations, “cannot simply be left for a better day” (Farmer

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