Explain Why I Want To Care In Third World Countries

In my life as a part of my ever growing “bucket list”, I would like to travel to a third world country, after attending medical school, and participate in a community-based health care system. In this health care system there would be a team of health care providers spanning the spectrum of care needs throughout life- from birth to death. This is very important to me because I would like to live a life of service. I have already spent countless hours throughout my middle school and high school years volunteering at youth soccer camps and with Special Olympics. In doing so, I have hoped to enrich the life experience of the children who I worked with. Although important, I know that there are people that are in far greater need in third world countries and I would like to expand into helping them as well. This is important to me because more than 200 million children under five years old, across the globe do not receive standard medical care, leading to over 10 million deaths annually. Living in the United States, I have not been exposed to anyone, personally, who has died due to a lack of …show more content…
In third world countries many women not only do not receive prenatal care, they also do not receive any postpartum care. This is the cause of many deaths that could be prevented with better access to care. Approximately 830 women die every day due to pregnancy or childbirth related complications. Mothers in the United States receive nutrition counseling during pregnancy that assures that both the mother and the child will be healthy throughout the pregnancy. I do not know of these hardships from personal experience just from reading as well as what I have learned in school from reading books such as A Long Way Gone. This issue can be solved if people, health care providers, government organizations and non-governmental organizations work