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November 05, 2004
Poverty
After watching the documentary on parasite infections this morning, it suddenly dawn upon me that poverty is really very scary. I really cannot imagine living my life in the conditions I saw on the video tape. By poor and poverty, I don't mean a situation where you cannot afford your dream car, dream house or even the latest gadget. Think along the lines of malnutrition (don't give me smartass comments like malabsorption) and slums.
Like I said earlier, the documentary was on parasite infections, basically, you get to see people getting infected by parasites, how those microscopic creatures enter their body, multiply and make them suffer. The part of the show that really touched me was the one where they talked about River Blindness (aka Onchocerciasis). You find a row of blind people holding on to each other's end, with an able-vision person leading them to the doctor's. On top of their inability to see, most of them also look malnourished.
Most of us have never experienced a day of poverty and all we ever see are video recordings which seems so unreal! In a way, it is difficult to believe that as I sit in my airconditioned room, typing away on my laptop, drinking coffee, there is someone else at the other end of the world who still drink murky water from the river, who still bathe in that same dirty water. Processing the water? Huh? What are you talking about???
Here's a part of the conversation that went on as we watched the video..
V: As if being poor is not enough suffering...
Me: It's because they are poor, that's why living condition is bad, the standard of hygiene isn't there... and that's why so many of them fall sick.
To any IMU-ians who are interested, the video tape is in MMS. Helps you remember your parasitology... not bad.
Posted by yeepei at November 5, 2004 01:41 AM
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