No US dollars for an x-ray
February 25th, 2009
This image was sent to us yesterday:
Yesterday I visited a church to discuss how we could work together to assist the very poor and many of the victims of the 2008 political violence who lost everything they had when their homes were destroyed.
I saw this man lying outside the front door of the Church, took his hand and asked him if he had TB. He said yes, but he had left his papers at home.
Who knows what or where home is?
His clothes covered a skeletal body. Flies buzzed around him like vultures.
He needed to have an x-ray before the hospital would start him on treatment and that costs US dollars. Where is a man like him supposed to find US dollars?
If he (and hundreds of others who come to the Church door in a similar plight) are unable to be assisted, then no doubt they will lie down and die somewhere. Perhaps a blessed relief from their suffering.
