In Reply to: and Smudge posted by Angela on Monday, 1. May 2006 at 15:30 Bali Time:
It is kind of sad that some people who are in a position to get medical aid any time they need it without having to worry that because they have no money for medicine they may have to watch their children or their parents suffer or even die.
It is a shame that pompas self opinionated people who have all the comforts of life without knowledge of individual cases would assume they are more knowledgeable than those that have taken the trouble to find out the situation for themselves.
I would not proscribe any medication other than minor first aid without the knowledge and approval of a qualified medical person, as some one who spends hours in hospital waiting rooms with people in need of medical attention I and those working for me spend hours every month talking to Doctors nurses etc.
The village people who we try to help have no way of paying for the medicines they are proscribed. so with a lot of help from people of this forum (some of them have actually joined me with patients at the hospitals) we can supply them with what has been proscribed for them.
I am just part of one group that is trying to help those that are not in a position to help them selves, happily there are many other groups of people that are taking time and effort to help others.
On the 9th of June we have a little 3 year old going to Perth to have an operation for Club feet because in this case Australia is the best place to get the job done in other cases children get treated in Bali hospitals we must provide the medicine and pay the hospital bills, to save a few lives is the most satisfying way to spend ones time