I thought Yao Ming not playing the rest of basketball season was a big blow to fantasy early in this year, but on May 12, China faced tougher challenge than me finding a replacement. Over 5 million now homeless and many big serving hospitals already destroy in the central areas, how does one country rebound and respond? Well you do it with help and listening to right advice. According to Jane Parry's article, medical specialist and equipment came to the aid via NGOs such as Médecins Sans Frontières. The need stated by Martin De Smet, head of the emergency unit at the Brussels headquarters of Médecins Sans Frontières, "is that the basic needs of public health, general surgery, and the distribution of hygiene kits seem to be covered quite well, and we have two roles to play: in very specific medical fields and in the area of mental health." (Parry article). With that aspect, China health care system deliever in sense that experts are coming to help. The ratio in the favor of the amount of people who need the help with the amount of specialist in the area, but I feel that a collective and conscience efforts were being made to effectively provide this vulnerable population with specialists in many fields such as mental health. Of course, NGOs played a big part, which why I feel I am comfortable on saying that China may have handle the earthquake 10 times better than U.S. did with Katrina. That leads me to think that China would probably be more effective in dealing with Katrina than U.S. Isn't that shocking?references:
Health services in China face enormous challenge after earthquake
Parry BMJ.2008; 336: 1209
http://questions.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/16/qa-the-earthquake-in-china/
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