What if you were to live in a world with no source of health care whatsoever? How about living in a world where diseases are common and you are living with unhygienic sources of water? In the world of Sub-Saharan countries of Africa, which can include Congo and Uganda, poverty is very common. Being poor in the world is a horrible thing, and many are blamed for the wrong purpose of poverty as you do not have access to many things.
Many African children and adults die because of simple illnesses that have gotten so much more worse due to the fact that they cannot get immediate health care. These people in very poor countries, which can include Congo and Uganda do not have the proper access to health care that they need is a serious human rights issue. The numerous amounts of people that do not have proper access to medical care is a human rights issue because the death rates are drastically going up due to the different types of diseases that are spreading around.
Secondly, women and child deaths are going up because of the lack of contact with birth care and hygiene during pregnancy, and this is a disturbing human rights issue. First, the people that cannot get authentic medical care is a human rights issue because AIDS/HIVS have spread rapidly, and this resulted in a higher number of deaths. People in poor places such as Congo and Uganda need to have access to proper health care as a disease in Africa that is spreading called Malaria kills one African child in a matter of thirty seconds.
Parasitic diseases have been spreading yet they do not have good medical care. AIDS kills around 6,000 people each day in Africa – more than wars, famines, and floods. (“Health Care – Africa” 1) thus meaning that these types of diseases have spread around and the number of deaths is starting to increase, as they do not have proper medical care. Many children and adults are constantly dying because of diseases, and if they are not being treated, then it will just cause more diseases as it will spread around without any medical help.
In most Sub-Saharan countries, the amounts of diseases and viruses have spread so much that they cannot get any medical care as they are poor, so they might even spread further into other countries or even continents. Cleary, different types of diseases are being spread around the world because of the medical care that they do not get whether it is unsanitary water or something else. Secondly, another reason why the lack of health care is a human rights issue is because children and women’s deaths rates are due to the lack of contact with health (birth) and hygiene during pregnancy.
Many times, mothers have their pregnancies terminated by natural causes that could have been prevented if medical facilities were adequate, so this means that the developing child was also affected. In Congo 800,000 women are living with fistula, a disabling condition often caused by problems in childbirth; the number grows by 20,000 each year. Effects of why the mothers and child have bad conditions can include the fact that they have a food shortage and cannot feed their developing fetus, how poverty affects the income of each person and unhygienic/unsanitary things like water.
According to Dr. De Bernis, he says, “Although it may not be their fault for the occurrence of poverty, it is some people’s own individual responsibility for not having health insurance. ” But, because of the lack of accessible health care with little to none hospitals, that provide proper health care, the number of diseases and bad health problems are affecting both the mothers and the young children. In conclusion, in poor African countries such as Congo and Uganda do not have the health care they need when women are pregnant, whether it is a disease from unhygienic water, or if it is from poverty.
On the other hand, some people would say that the vast majority of people that cannot afford health insurance is their own individual responsibility for being so poor and unsuccessful. In fact, eight out of ten people in Congo that are uninsured work for working families and work very hard to get a certain amount of money, but they do not get their health insurance covered because they do not use their money wisely (“Universal Health” 1).
Also, many will say that Africa is rich enough to pay for universal health care in Congo and Uganda and that it is their task and duty to get health insurance, as many will say that they are not dealing with something so serious. However, universal health care in Congo and Uganda is misleading in this case because it is really not their fault that they are so poor and suffering from poverty, as some diseases and illnesses that are spreading in Central Africa actually need severe medical care.
Many people die in a matter of seconds every day because of non-accessible health care. In fact, most people in these places do not get paid well, and most African countries have to deal with dirty water, pollution, and especially illnesses. Therefore, the claims about African health care is inconclusive, so it really does not make sense that people think that it is people’s individual responsibilities when they are suffering from conditions that are severe. In conclusion, the amount of health care in Congo and Uganda is scarce and is a human rights issue.
To begin, common diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa like Malaria and AIDS is a serious human rights issue because as the death rates are increasing, the spread of diseases is increasing as well. Secondly, women and their developing fetus do not have good hygiene and they cannot have access to birth care because of poverty so the death rates of women and Young children are increasing and this is a serious Human Rights Issue. what if, there was a stop to this, and one day, we can change the number of people that cannot have health care.
What if, we donated graciously to the developing children and ill adults, that do not have proper health care so that death rates would drop, and we could also not recognize the poor as bad rather we should feel sad for them and maybe, they could be paid a generous amount. (https://watsi. org/) In the environment of Congo and Uganda, where diseases, poverty, unhygienic sources of water are really common, the health care that they truly need is no longer accessible to them, and they have to live their short life with many illnesses.
