Malaria's Disease

In Uganda, a being a doctor is both an interesting and challenging job. Everyday am faced with terminally ill patients yet for some of them you can barely do anything to change the situation; however, most of these patients have the largely preventable illness but they come to the hospital when the disease is adverse. Of course, there are various reason to explain this scenario in the Ugandan Context. Most people point out the lack access to essential health care and medicines as the cause of the problem. As a young doctor, this situation has led me to my quest for answers to why so many people continue to die of largely of preventable illness …show more content…
However, this was no the not the usual form of malaria, he had complicated malaria with the kidney injury. He needed dialysis to save his life. Unfortunately, dialysis was a specialised service that had to be covered by out of his pocket expenditure since he had no health insurance of any form the only option was to sell all his life belongs to save his life. Sincerely, I do not think my situation who have been any different had I been the one since I have no social insurance just as many other Ugandans. Malaria drew this man close his death and yet if he survived he was stripped of earthly possessions and he would live in absolute poverty. Since poverty is the risk factor for ill health this man was the bond in illness and poverty by the episode of malaria he got, a disease that is largely preventable through simple interventions. With the recent rise of the incident of all disease spread by the mosquitoes for example Zika, Rift valley fever and Malaria we world would be concerned about the future of health and if other old mosquitoes spread diseases like yellow fever and Chikungunya re-emerge as public health threats. So where does this leave the public health systems especially the low and middle-income countries were these disease vector and part of the fauna and flora of these countries. Unfortunately, most of these countries are the low and middle income posting another constraint in their ability of surveillance and copying to contain the emerging epidemics. Situations like this drew me into the application for a master of Public health at Liverpool University and I believe this program will enable me to be part of the solution to these public health